In this clip from an episode of Family Guy, the main character's wife, Louis Griffin, is running in an election and must make speeches and answer questions to win over undecided voters in her neighborhood. She realizes that her opponent is not answering the questions properly and the crowd is going wild for his answers. In order to beat her opponent, Mrs. Griffin answers the questions with irrelevant, short answers that the crowd wants to hear. With every random answer, she wins over the undecided voters even more. Satire is being used in this scene especially because it is criticizing the voting system in an entertaining and playful way. There are two types of satirical techniques being used: exaggeration and parody.
There is exaggeration to prove that people running for elections do use responses to avoid the true question but are not as random as the ones said in the clip. The exaggeration is just used to let the viewer understand the situation while being amused. There is parody used to show how funny it is that voters actually fall for the sweet nothings they hear runners say. Both these types of satire are successfully used to prove a point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOh-rpvjYg&list=PL1C74535C1D3EABE0&index=3
Sunday, February 22, 2015
God's Blessings in the Atmosphere
"New Study Finds Majority Of God’s Blessings Burn Up On Entry Into Atmosphere"
Source: The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-study-finds-majority-of-gods-blessings-burn-up,37946/
In a study released on Thursday, February 5, 2014, by the University of Texas Department of Astronomy, it was found that the majority of "God's blessings" end up burning up when passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. In this context, "God's blessings" are referring to all floating or burning particles found in space, like comets and so on. “We discovered that due to the thickness and density of the gases surrounding our planet, 80 percent of God’s graces will completely disintegrate by the time they are about 75 to 100 kilometers away from the surface,” said professor Donald Northcote (The Onion, 1). The most generous gifts sent by God even disintegrate and get reduced so quickly into "fragments of His original intention during the journey". One exclusion to this statement was the powerful blessing from God that struck Earth during the Cretaceous Period, or the Dinosaur era, which also is believed to have wiped out about 75 percent of the world’s species.
In this article, the reader can find the use of satire throughout the whole writing. By using the words "God's blessings" or "the generous gifts sent by God", the writer uses parody satire to amuse the reader, interest them about reading more, and help them understand the particular subject.
Source: The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-study-finds-majority-of-gods-blessings-burn-up,37946/
In a study released on Thursday, February 5, 2014, by the University of Texas Department of Astronomy, it was found that the majority of "God's blessings" end up burning up when passing through the Earth’s atmosphere. In this context, "God's blessings" are referring to all floating or burning particles found in space, like comets and so on. “We discovered that due to the thickness and density of the gases surrounding our planet, 80 percent of God’s graces will completely disintegrate by the time they are about 75 to 100 kilometers away from the surface,” said professor Donald Northcote (The Onion, 1). The most generous gifts sent by God even disintegrate and get reduced so quickly into "fragments of His original intention during the journey". One exclusion to this statement was the powerful blessing from God that struck Earth during the Cretaceous Period, or the Dinosaur era, which also is believed to have wiped out about 75 percent of the world’s species.
In this article, the reader can find the use of satire throughout the whole writing. By using the words "God's blessings" or "the generous gifts sent by God", the writer uses parody satire to amuse the reader, interest them about reading more, and help them understand the particular subject.
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