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Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, it
Perhaps the most striking quality of satiric literature is its freshness, it
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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. [br] Why does the author mention Don Quixote, Brave New World and A Modest proposal in the first paragraph?
选项
A、They are famous examples of satiric literature.
B、They present commonsense solutions to problems.
C、They are appropriate for readers of all ages.
D、They are books with similar stories.
答案
A
解析
文章指出,讽刺文学是以新的角度将我们熟悉的事物再次呈现在我们的面前,以达到教育读者的目的,为了更好地说明,作者提到三部著名的讽刺文学来证明自己的观点。
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