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Satire In The Acharnians

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Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. In today’s world satire is embedded into several things. Some things it’s embedded into is cartons, playwrights, movies, passages, jokes, etc. The play “The Acharnians” by Aristophanes and “The Word- Armistice” by Stephen Colbert uses satire and has several similarities and differences. “The Acharnians” by Aristophanes is a play that involves a lot of hilarious satire. The hilarious satire follows the many attempts of Dicaeopolis to make a peace between the Spartans and himself. The Spartans and Athenians, are fighting in the Peloponnesian War. After …show more content…

When he introduces the word armistice we then made up the word “armis-ness.” That is an example of sarcasm. When he says something about stop the war fever that’s an example of irony. The play and the film relates in numerous ways. A similarite that the film and play has is when Dicaeopolis was making side comments and the use of the split screen. The split screen also relates to when Lamachus and Dicaeopolis was going back and forth. Something else that is similar is when Colbert says something along the lines of creating new veterans and when at the end of the play the chorus celebrates Dicaeopolis as a hero. The chorus celebrated Dicaeopolis as a hero by saying “Well we’ll attend you to your door, and tell your triumph’s story; And shout hip, hip, hurrah before We leave you with your glory. Despite the similarities of the two pieces of work they have several differences. When the aired thousands of people could see it but the audience for the play could see the play one time. There was a 2000 year time span between the film and play. When the play was performed there was hardly any technology but with Colbert there was tons of technology. These differences shows the world today that 2000 years ago they couldn’t go back and watch something but now a days you could go back and watch something a thousand

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