Satire facts for kids
Satire is a form in art or writing which ridicules either a person, government, or an institution, often through the use of humour. Satire can either be in paintings, plays, books, songs, TV or movies. It also is used to stereotype people.
Satire was used long ago. It is a Latin word, though the plays of Aristophanes are often called satirical. Satire was widely known in Elizabethan times. Swift used it in his book Gulliver's Travels to make fun of people’s stupidity. Works like The Beggar’s Opera (1728) used satire to show how silly the politicians of the time were. The German playwright Bertolt Brecht used a lot of satire, as did Peter Cook. Jon Stewart and other comedians use it frequently.
Satire often points out ironic or bad things that powerful people are doing. Its adjective is satirical.
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Images for kids
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"Le satire e l'epistole di Q. Orazio Flacco", printed in 1814. -
The satirical papyrus at the British Museum
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Satirical ostracon showing a cat guarding geese, c.1120 BC, Egypt.
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Figured ostracon showing a cat waiting on a mouse, Egypt
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Pieter Bruegel's 1568 satirical painting The Blind Leading the Blind.
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A Victorian satirical sketch depicting a gentleman's donkey race in 1852
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Benzino Napaloni and Adenoid Hynkel in The Great Dictator (1940). Chaplin later declared that he would have not made the film if he had known about the concentration camps.
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Puppet of Manchester United striker Eric Cantona from the British satirical puppet show Spitting Image
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Stephen Colbert satirically impersonated an opinionated and self-righteous television commentator on his Comedy Central program in the U.S.
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Political satire by Ranan Lurie
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In Spanish: Sátira para niños
