LITERATURE QUESTIONS
RESTORATION EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DRAMA
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Question
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Jonathan Swift once wrote that satire is:
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like a mirror where people see themselves objectively.
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like a mirror where people see everyone but themselves.
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like a two-way mirror where people can see the inner workings of society.
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not like a mirror at all, but rather like a brick that is used to break mirrors so that people don’t have to look at themselves.
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like a window where people can look in on society.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Political satire is the use of humor and exaggeration to criticize or ridicule aspects of government and public affairs. The effect of this kind of satire rests on the use of allusion, a reference to a well-known person, event, or thing, and caricature, which exaggerates some feature of what is being referenced.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why did playwrights such as John Dryden and Nicholas Rowe write about subjects from the distant past? Because the Puritans were on the lookout for any reason to shut down the theaters again, artists looked to the past because it was “safe."
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