April 3/4

Satire Review
Is used to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule It intends to improve humanity by criticizing. A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country or even the entire world. It usually makes things seem ridiculous.

Satire
How is The Crucible a satire?

Understatement
An understatement is - Portraying something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.

- Making the situation seem less serious than it is.

Understatement Examples
EXAMPLES: To say it rained a bit more than usual while describing an area being flooded after a heavy rain fall. To say it is a bit cold today when temperature is 20!

Is this an example of understatement?

You might say Albert Einstein had a good head for numbers.

What is an archetype?
An original model after which other things are similarly patterned A character type or a representation of recurring idea. Evokes strong associations to the reader.

Types of Archetypes
The Tragic Hero The Sullied Hero The Romantic Hero The Temptress The Devil Figure The Scapegoat

The Tragic Hero

The tragic hero is the protagonist of a tragedy. Characteristics of a tragic hero:
Noble Stature: Must be in some leadership position so that they can fall. Tragic Flaw: They must fall due to some flaw in their own personality. Free Choice: The tragic hero falls because he chooses one course of action over another.

Characteristics of a tragic hero

The Punishment Exceeds the Crime: the audience must not be left feeling that the tragic hero got what he deserved. Part of what makes the action "tragic" is to witness the injustice of what has occurred to the tragic hero. Hero has Increased Awareness: it is crucial that the tragic hero come to some sort of an understanding of what went wrong or of what was really going on before he comes to his end.

Examples
Rick Grimes The Walking Dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh33XbqegJI

 The sullied hero is initially not someone we, as an audience, look up tosomeone who because of a flaw is considered inferior in some way. It is this fallibility that makes us identify with him/her

The Sullied Hero

The Romantic Hero

Characteristics:
Brooding, dark, dreamy At odds with society Not interested in authority or conformity
Indulges-wallows in his/her own feelings, uniqueness, and intuition Self-Centered.

A character of extremes
Can be obsessive (with love or something else)

Contd
Quest for beauty of perfection Becomes consumed with the desire of the unattainable. Longs for something more
The past The impossible Example

The Temptress
Characterized by sensuous beauty, this woman is one to whom the protagonist is physically attracted and who ultimately brings about his downfall. May appear as a witch or vampire Example

The Devil Figure

This character is evil incarnate. Example Sometimes offers worldly goods, fame, or knowledge to the hero in exchange for possession of the soul

Devil Figure characteristics

Associated with dark and gloomy imagery Outcast Example

The Scapegoat
An animal, or more usually a human, whose death in a public ceremony expiates some taint or sin of a community. They are often more powerful in death than in life. A character that takes the blame of everything bad that happens