Stephen Leasock's "Arcadian Adventures With The Idle Rich": Satire
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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 ....
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.... government, and anything within its touch. Writing about
such topics is hard to do without offending people. Leacock's technique combines
money with humour, and accompanies his moral message with ironic characters;
their 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 Plutoni ....
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