Date of Award

6-1927

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Thomas P. Whelan

Second Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

Satire and the satirist have been in evidence in well-nigh all the ages of the world's history. It is part of man's nature to seek entertainment, but often the object of his pleasure is the ridicule of an individual, the community at large, or some cause. When the human comedy of men and manners is out of gear through the tyranny of either over the other, and existence is become a travesty and a caricature of life, heavy and lumbering, then, when men can neither laugh or weep, comes satire and the satirist to break the congestion in them and make them laugh and weep together; upon the realization of the futility of their actions, as impressed upon them by the satirist, they begin to rebell against their sluggishness and to throw down the walls wherewith they have hemmed themselves in, and to admit the cleansing fires, the purge of pity and terror, that to them will mean new life.

Comments

A Thesis submitted partially to fulfill the requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts.

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