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Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich": Satire - Papers Online

Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich": Satire

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 mere
clownish jeering." (Encyclopaedia Britannica 14th ed. vol. 20 p. 5). Whereas
Swift's statement suggests that people are not offended by satire because
readers identify the character's faults with their own faults; Garnett suggests
that humour is the key element that does not make satire offensive. With any
satire someone is bound to be offended, but the technique the author uses can
change ...

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exaggerated actions, and a constant comical tone to prevent readers from
being offended.
Leacock's utopian world is filled with humorous labels that represent the
"Plutonian's" personalities. "Ourselves Monthly"; a magazine for the modern
self-centered, is a Plutonian favourite. To fill their idle days, the Plutonian
women are in an endless search for trends in literature and religion. Without
the distractions of club luncheons and trying to achieve the "Higher
Indifference", 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 ...

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