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Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers o
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers o
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2013-01-15
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Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, its originality of perspective. Satire rarely offers original ideas. Instead.it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists do not offer the world new philosophies. What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspective that makes these conditions seem foolish, harmful, or affected. Satire jars us out of complacence into a pleasantly shocked realization that many of the values that we unquestionably accept are false. Don Quixote makes chivalry seem absurd;Brave New World ridicules the pretensions of science; A Modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by advocating cannibalism. None of these ideas is original. Chivalry was suspect before Cervantes, humanists objected to the claims of pure science before Aldous Huxley, and people were aware of famine before Swift It was not the originality of the idea that made these satires popular. It was the manner of expression, the satire method, that made them interesting and entertaining. Satires are read because they are aesthetically satisfying works of art, not because they are morally wholesome or ethically instructive. They are stimulating and refreshing because with commonsense briskness they brash away illusions and secondhand opinions. With spontaneous irreverence, satire rearranges perspectives, scrambles familiar objects into incongruous combination, and speaks in a personal idiom instead of abstract platitude.
Satire exists because there is need for it It has lived because the readers appreciate a refreshing stimulus, an irreverent reminder that they live in a world of platitudinous thinking, cheap moralizing, and foolish philosophy. Satire serves to prod people into an awareness of truth, though rarely to any action on behalf of truth. Satire tends to remind people that much of what they see, hear, and read in popular media is hypocritical .sentimental, and only partially true. Life resembles in only a slight degree the popular image of it Soldiers rarely hold the ideals that movies attribute to them, nor do ordinary citizens devote their lives to unselfish service of humanity. Intelligent people know these things but tend to forget them when they do not hear them expressed.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
选项
A、Difficulties of writing satiric literature.
B、Popular topics of satire.
C、New philosophies emerging from satiric literature.
D、Reasons for the popularity of satire.
答案
D
解析
文章指出,讽刺文学是通过独特的新视角来吸引读者的喜爱,它在思想上并没有什么创造性。它用一种新的形式将大家熟悉的事物呈现出来。使那些事物似乎是愚蠢的、有害的或受到影响。第一段Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness,its originality of per-spective.Satire rarely ofrers original ideas.Instead,it presents the familiar in a new form. Satirists donot offer the world new philosophies.What they do is look at familiar conditions from a perspectivethat makes these conditions seem foolish,harmful,or affected.
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