Question

Satire Graphic Organizer for Option B




Work Title:



Author / Creator:





Publication Date:

Historical Context:







Plot Summary:







What is being mocked in this piece?




Human Institutions:






Human Weaknesses:






Techniques Employed:


Effect:
























































Author's Tone:


Overall Effectiveness of the Satire:

Answer 1

Satire Graphic Organizer




Work Title:

Gulliver's Travels


Author / Creator:

Jonathan Swift






Publication Date: 1726

Historical Context:
Jonathan Swift was writing at a time when there were debates over what the official religion of England should be, and there was a great deal of tension between England's two political parties.




Plot Summary:
A representative from Lilliput describes two conflicts to Gulliver: the conflict between the "high heels" and "low heels" and the conflict between Lilliput and Blefuscu over which end of the egg should be cracked first.




What is being mocked in this piece?




Human Institutions:
•the church
•the king
•the two political parties in Parliament


Human Weaknesses:

pettiness of the conflicts between people and nations (that is why he makes them little people!)

narrow-mindedness of individuals and nations (everyone thinks they are right and the other person or party is wrong when really they are similar)

pride




Techniques Employed:


Effect:




Irony
•The 6-inch people think they are so significant and grand.
•The representative says that every man should decide for himself, and then he says that the chief magistrate should decide for the people.





It is ironic that Swift makes those in power and their opinions little to show how petty the people are with their arguments.
This is ironic because one cannot decide for himself and have someone else decide for him.




Hyperbole

"It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end."





The exaggeration of those who have suffered death due to their allegiance to cracking an egg on one end makes the religious debate and those who have died because of it seem tragically silly.




Understatement
•Swift reduces the political differences to a matter of how high one's heels are.
•He also reduces the religious debates to a matter of which end of the egg should be cracked first.





The use of understatement in both examples shows how ridiculous the author feels these disagreements and those who are having them are.




Author's Tone:
Jonathan Swift's attitude is gently mocking. He pokes fun at the institutions of his time period but is not overly sarcastic or harsh in this excerpt. We get the idea that he is critical of humans for their pride, pettiness, and narrow-minded way of thinking.

Overall Effectiveness of the Satire:
I think that Swift's satire is effective. With the historical information, we better understand what he is making fun of. He points out the flaws in things like the Church of England, the king, and Parliament, but he also makes it clear that those disagreements are due to human nature to be petty, narrow-minded, and prideful. The most obvious techniques that he used were irony, hyperbole, and understatement. I particularly liked how he made the people little—literally—to represent their "little" way of thinking. The satire was effective in causing me to laugh and think about humanity's weakness, which is the purpose of a satire.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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