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From your reading of satirical texts this half term, write a response to this statement and explain what it is you have enjoyed or disliked and why, about the satirical works studied. Be sure to back up your points with plenty of examples.  

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Satire "Historically, there have been fewer female writers of satire, and in "The Anatomy Of Satire", Gilbert Highest suggests woman find satire as a genre less enjoyable to read than men do." From your reading of satirical texts this half term, write a response to this statement and explain what it is you have enjoyed or disliked and why, about the satirical works studied. Be sure to back up your points with plenty of examples. The genre of satire provokes much discussion and one of the more obvious talking points is the author and his or her own life. However it has become obvious to me from my wide-ranging studies that there are less female writers, painters or poets than there are males. Although the point that there have been fewer female satirists than male is a valid one, I think that the female writers who have emerged, such as Carol...

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