Below are a sample of the resources I have painstakingly developed for my A level Literature students. Here is an excerpt of one essay…there are essays on texts such as “Great Gatsby”, “Age of Iron”, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woof”, etc. Only my regular students who have done more than 3 months of tuition will receive such premium essays.
Satire in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Satire is defined by the authoritative M H Abrams in his ‘A Glossary of Literary Terms’ as the literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous or evoking attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation. The text went on to distinguish from comic by stating that “unlike comedy whose end goal is to evoke laughter, satire uses laughter as weapon and against a butt (target) that exists outside of the work itself”. The butt may be a type of person, an actual person or a class, an institution, or even the entire human race. And so clearly the first use of satire in the text is to criticise real people in real social society…
