was a time when writers used satire as a weapon to bring the social issues of a country into sight for everyday people. By mocking and belittling, Sor Juana de la Cruz's "Philosophical Optimism," Voltaire's Candide, and John Swift's "A Modest Proposal," criticize particular parts of their societies in order to shed some light and hope to change issues that affect not only themselves but thousands of other people even today. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's "Philosophical Satire" destroys the double standards
attention to both the conscious and unconscious perceptions, biases, and differences in the world through the use of humor, whether it is lighthearted, morbid, or mocking. Satire has been around as long as there has been sarcasm, so when Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal was published in 1729 satire was not a new concept. Though satire was not unheard of and Swift was already well known for his caustic writing, neither of these things prevented people from across Ireland and the rest of Europe from being
non-autobiographical autobiography on his experiences in World War II, focusing primarily on the firebombing of Dresden and its consequential total decimation. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Cat’s Cradle explores the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima with satire and _____. In both of these novels, Vonnegut has a very distinctive and easily identifiable writing style that expresses his honest opinions and aptly portrays his character/personality. As a man with a background in reporting scarred by the horrific
Let us be reminded at this point that the main reason behind Canidia’s resorting to child sacrifice in Epode 5 is her personal feeling of having been outsmarted by a more resourceful rival witch; apparently her rival’s potion seems to have succeeded to keep Canidia’s lover Varus away from her. And so an angry Canidia is in the process of concocting a more potent potion, for which she requires the liver of a child. But even on the rare occasions where the reasons behind the witches’ revenge are more