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Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich": Satire
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Jonathan Swift has suggested that "Satire is a sort of Glass, wherein
Beholders do generally discover every body's Face their own; which is the chief
reason...that so few are offended with it." Richard Garnett suggests that,
"Without humour, satire is invictive; without literary form, [and] it is ....
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....the women would have to do something productive. Readers that
identify themselves with the class of people the Plutonians represent would be
embarrassed rather than offended by Leacock's satirical portrayal of them.
"The Yahi-Bahi Oriental Society" exaggerates the stupidity of the
Plutonians to a point where the reader laughs at the character's misfortunes.
The con men give ridiculous prophecies such as "Many things are yet to happen
before others begin." (Leacock 87), and eventually take t.... |
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