![]() ![]() Satire exists because there is need for it. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous juxtaposition, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brush away illusions and secondhand opinions. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. It was the manner of expression, the satiric method, that made them interesting and entertaining. It wasn’t the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values we unquestioningly accept are false. ![]() ![]() What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satirists don’t offer the world new philosophies. ![]() Instead, it presents the familiar in a new form. Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each question from 51 to 60. ![]()
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