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Definition of Satire
Satire is the use of humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to criticize something or someone. Public figures, such as politicians, are often the subject of satire, but satirists can take... read full definition
Satire is the use of humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to criticize something or someone. Public figures, such as politicians, are often the subject of... read full definition
Satire is the use of humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to criticize something or someone. Public figures, such as politicians... read full definition
Key Examples in Absalom, Absalom!
Chapter 6
Explanation and Analysis—The South :
Through the figure of Shreve, one of Quentin's fellow students at Harvard, Faulkner satirizes what he regards as the condescending attitudes toward the South held by those who live in the North of the United States. In the later chapters of the novel, Quentin recounts what he has learned about the events surrounding the deaths of Thomas Sutpen and Charles Bon, and Shreve takes a morbid interest in his classmate's tale, repeatedly and incorrectly assuming that Rosa is Quentin's aunt or cousin:
“You mean she was no kin to you, no kin to you at all, that there was actually one Southern Bayard or Guinevere who was no kin to you? then what did she die for?” and that not Shreve’s first time, nobody’s first time in Cambridge since September: Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all)—"
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