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A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]
American History X satirizes race/racism in a contemporary setting; They Live; Land of the Dead, a satire of post-9/11 America state and of the Bush administration; The Wicker Man, a satire on cults and religion; The Great Dictator, a satire on Adolf Hitler; Monty Python's Life of Brian, a satire on miscommunication, religion and Christianity
In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. Parody exists in all art media, including literature , music and cinema . Subcategories
Satire can be traced back throughout history; wherever organized government, or social categories have existed, so has satire. [5] The oldest example that has survived until today is Aristophanes. In his time, satire targeted top politicians, like Cleon, [6] and religion, at the time headed by Zeus.
TikTok doesn't know what "satire" means, but the hashtag will lead you to a few funny videos . While satire usually refers to a comedic form of social commentary, on TikTok, it's more like a video ...
While the hashtag #satire (it has 3.2 billion views) is used constantly on the platform, . most of the videos in this category don't fall into the category of criticism or social commentary.
Austen's juvenile parody of Oliver Goldsmith's History of England is "authored" by "a partial, prejudiced, and ignorant Historian". In such statements, Austen suggests that history is a masculine fiction and of little importance to women. [102] Feminist critics also focus on the role of the female artist in Austen's fiction.