ENGL 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Syphilis, Premature Ejaculation, Orgasm
28 Jan 2013
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The more repressed a society is, the more the outlet. Think of selves as against violence, but may go to a hockey game and wish to see a fight. A literary work which ridicules vice/folly in human behaviour; satire usually implies a positive moral alternative without presenting it directly. Vice: vicious behaviour; has to be habitual, usually harmful, immoral, illegal (etc drug use, murder, smoking, domestic or any type of abuse,) Folly: foolish behaviour, something society would find inappropriate. Not illegal, unethical, harmful to self or others (wearing large fruit hats when it"s uncommon to culture) Rochester does present his positive moral alternative in his poem whereas most don"t. By being lazy as a king, self-indulgent, not taking your country to war could be seen by some as. Supposedly the purpose of satire is to make people reform and be better but usually does not have that effect but satirists usually say that that is their purpose.
