07-10-2012, 07:53 PM
Sarcasm is not difficult, well at least not for anybody with half a brain.
See? Fairly easy to be sarcastic. The simplest form is composed of two parts, as in the above example.
Sarcasm is not difficult, | well at least not for anybody with half a brain.
The first part is the statement, the second part is the demeaning comment. Sarcasm is a personal attack used to demean a person, group, or an ideology.
Satire:
I do not think you want to use sarcasm (which lacks finesse), you want to use satire, which is an entirely different animal and much harder to pull off. Sarcasm works better with a small target, like one person, or a small group where you can get personal. Instead of being insulting satire uses analogy. Gulliver's Travels is a satire about England, the human race, and England and France. Two countries go to war over which end the egg should be broken to open it. It's been to long for me to remember who was suppose to be who, but it applies to any situation where some meaningless thing is used to create division or conflict. Such as whether a person should be "dunked" or "sprinkled" when being baptized.
You may wish to read some of the later Sam Clemons (Mark Twain) as he uses both deftly, and is fond of putting the human race on trial. This is especially true in his last novel the Mysterious Stranger.
You can download it for free here
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3186
Clemons was a master at both and a good person to learn from.
Dale
See? Fairly easy to be sarcastic. The simplest form is composed of two parts, as in the above example.
Sarcasm is not difficult, | well at least not for anybody with half a brain.
The first part is the statement, the second part is the demeaning comment. Sarcasm is a personal attack used to demean a person, group, or an ideology.
Satire:
I do not think you want to use sarcasm (which lacks finesse), you want to use satire, which is an entirely different animal and much harder to pull off. Sarcasm works better with a small target, like one person, or a small group where you can get personal. Instead of being insulting satire uses analogy. Gulliver's Travels is a satire about England, the human race, and England and France. Two countries go to war over which end the egg should be broken to open it. It's been to long for me to remember who was suppose to be who, but it applies to any situation where some meaningless thing is used to create division or conflict. Such as whether a person should be "dunked" or "sprinkled" when being baptized.
You may wish to read some of the later Sam Clemons (Mark Twain) as he uses both deftly, and is fond of putting the human race on trial. This is especially true in his last novel the Mysterious Stranger.
You can download it for free here
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/3186
Clemons was a master at both and a good person to learn from.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.