Satire- is
the uses of sarcasm, exaggeration, melodrama, irony, hyperboles,
parodies, etc. to mock societal flaws
situations, people, topic for the purpose of
change.
*Remember for tomorrow*
Revolutions:
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1700s
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2000s
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-Hunger
started the revolution
-Madame
Defarge is waiting (brewing)
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-Marie
Antoinette figure
-New
names (red vs. yellow shirts)
-Blocked
Media
*-Media
shows a change: “hunger” as cause
*-Don’t
die as easily
-Becomes
bigger faster (media)
-Global
connections because everyone is connected economically and politically other
countries are more likely to help now
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Both:
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SPARK (one little thing that caused mass chaos)
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Influenced by others
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Similar in ways they started
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Government issues
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Oppression of lower classes
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Poor resenting luxuries
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Armies joined in rebel forces
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Public Humiliation (Gadafie vs. Louis XVI)
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Extremist
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Violence and bold movements to support their
cause (Father killing Monseigneur and man in Tunisian revolution lighting
himself on fire)
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Martyrdom
(Carton and Man in Tunisia)
What is Dickens adding to history that
helps us understand?
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Humanity
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Primary, first hand, perspective, aftermath
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Attitudes/Motives (Provides us with a very human thing- Family)
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Creative License
Dickens Creative License with Terror
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Sometimes a creepy eeriness (mist, darkness,
ghost) Beginning of book
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Book 3 Chapter 5 Dance around Lucie while she is
standing in front of La Force. (Carmagnole) Nightmare clearly not real.
o
Exaggeration: 5 thousand demons
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Foreboding (devices: repetition, horrific diction exaggeration).
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Want it to end because it is so long and you
feel it more and see the torture behind this dance.
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Book 3 Chapter 15,
o
crushing humanity
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Diction graphic
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Lack of subject making this even creepier
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Metaphor days “wine” that we are going to get
drunk on is the people’s blood that dies
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Capitalization
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Guillotines becomes essence more than itself
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Personification
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