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Thursday, March 10

Thursday, March 10. Turn in Essay on Man discussion questions Discuss Essay on Man Enlightenment Literature: Satire American Enlightenment & Birth of Economics Homework: Read Book 4, pages 118-121 Read Swift’s A Modest Proposal (pages 119-121) Bring Book 4 tomorrow!

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Thursday, March 10

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  1. Thursday, March 10 • Turn in Essay on Man discussion questions • Discuss Essay on Man • Enlightenment Literature: Satire • American Enlightenment & Birth of Economics • Homework: • Read Book 4, pages 118-121 • Read Swift’s A Modest Proposal (pages 119-121) • Bring Book 4 tomorrow! • Study for Vocab 11 Quiz • Independent reading book

  2. Satire: Weapon of the Enlightenment • Satire as a weapon? • Discrepancies between reality and Enlightenment ideals trigger protests and unrest. • Tool of social reformers to draw attention to contradictions between: • Morals and manners, intentions and actions • Enlightenment aspirations and contemporary injustice

  3. Satire of Jonathon Swift (1667-1745) • Irish • Traveled between Ireland and England • Fought hard for Irish • Pessimistic view of human nature • Gulliver’s Travels

  4. A Modest Proposal (1729) • Background: • Ireland is a British colony • Entirely dependant • Land loss and starvation • Text mocked both Ireland and England

  5. Satire • Horatian: playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humor. It directs wit, exaggeration, and self-deprecating humor toward what it identifies as folly, rather than evil. • Alexander Pope's The Rape of Locke • The Onion, The Daily Show • Juvenalian: more abrasive satire; addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal attack, with less emphasis on humor. • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis • A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift

  6. American Psycho • Novel by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991 • Movie starring Christian Bale, 2000 • Satirizing the 80s • Consumerism and Conspicuous Consumption • Superficiality – Nihilism • Imagery • Hyperbole

  7. Scenes from American Psycho • I am Patrick Bateman (first scene) • Traditional Moral Values • Calling Cards • Mask of Sanity • Shooting Spree • No Catharsis (end scene)

  8. Satire – Imagery and Hyperbole American Psycho A Modest Proposal • Examples of imagery • Examples of hyperbole • How are they used to support the satirical argument? • What problem is stated? • What is the author’s solution to the problem? • How are imagery and hyperbole used? • What emotions does it evoke?

  9. Please answer in your notes: • What problem does Swift identify? • What solution does Swift propose? • Swift uses satire as a means of social reform. Based on what we discussed in class and the reading, what aspects of society is Swift satirizing? • Cite examples from A Modest Proposal to support your answer. • In what ways is A Modest Proposal a good example of Juvenalian satire? • Juvenalian: more abrasive satire; addresses social evil through scorn, outrage, and savage ridicule. This form is often pessimistic, characterized by irony, sarcasm, moral indignation and personal attack, with less emphasis on humor.

  10. Homework: • Hamlet Essay due Monday • Hard copy in class • Tunrnitin.com by Midnight • Read textbook pages 160 - 166 • Bring Book 4 to class on Monday

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