"Insofar as my perspectives converge, I argue that in each case that satire is problematic, open-ended, essayistic, ambiguous in it's relationship to history, uncertain in it's political effect, resistant to formal closure, more inclined to ask questions than to provide the answers, and ambivalent about the pleasures it offers.! (Griffin D, 1994, P.2).

-It would appear from this statement and from my research around this discussion that although satire changes with society, and the prevelant subjects at the time. It is the flaws in human nature which have yet to change throughout history which allows a today's audiences to not only be able to relate to contemporary satire but also satire in the past.