What is satire? Detailed answer

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Satire is a literary criticism of certain phenomena of society, the way of life of people and the way they think. Satire can be in poetic form, prose, in the form of a play, movie, joke.

American humorist Ambrose Bierce in his many jokes ridiculed the environment. For example: "A tit in the hand is worthy of what it will bring" (instead of: "Better a tit in the hand than a crane in the sky"). Or: "Measure seven times before turning to a friend in trouble." Aesop, who wrote famous fables, and James Thurber, who created Tales of Our Time, gave birds, foxes, and other animals human stupidity and other vices.

A literary device that ridicules human vices is called satire. The most famous satirical works are "Candide" by Voltaire and "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. The first ridicules the idea that everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. The second makes fun of human vices in general.

Another example of a classic satirical work is Cervantes' Don Quixote. Don Quixote is an idealist knight. He and his squire Sancho Panza tried to correct the injustices of life, fought windmills, but everything turned out to be pointless. Many playwrights, especially in the XNUMXth century, wrote satirical plays. One of the greatest satirical playwrights was Molière.

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How many flavors do we have? Now it is generally accepted that five: bitter, sweet, salty, sour and umami - the taste of protein foods. Some research suggests that the human tongue can also taste complex carbohydrates like starch or flour. Neuroscientist Zachary Knight of the University of California at San Francisco and some of his colleagues believe that one more taste should be added to this list - the taste of water.

The statement that water has no taste is attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. In the twentieth century, the assumption of the ancient thinker was confirmed by scientific experiments: a psychologist at the University of Florida, Linda Bartoshuk, calculated that human saliva contains more substances with a pronounced taste than drinking water. Which means water can't taste good to us, she decided.

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