Examples of Satire in Literature

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This is a complete novel about political satire.

Don Quixote by Cervantes

This novel is about an ordinary man who one day goes "off the wall". He begins to ride around and fighting enemies and believing that he is a "knight".

"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Thurber

This is a novel about a person denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time daydreaming then worrying about the real world.

Definition of Satire

- Satire is the use of irony or sarcasm in exposing or denouncing.

- Satire is a literary composition where human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule.

- A satire is anything that is making fun of something, basically being sarcastic in order to criticize something that's bigger like societal rules, the government, etc..

- Satire has the shape of fragmentation. In satire, chaos isn't far away. In satire, cities become wastelands; school rooms become blackboard jungles; society becomes a mob or groups of gangs, marriage becomes a mere convenience or disappears altogether; all the signs of civilized life lose their glue, the whole social fabric threatens to come apart.

(Courtesy of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire and http://www.pafaculty.net/joyce/Contents/dubliners/satire/satire.html)

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