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"Satire the literary art of ridiculing a folly or vice in order to expose or correct it. The object of satire is usually human frailty, people institutions, ideas and things are all fair game for satirists. Satire evokes attitudes of amusement, contempt, satcorn, or indignation toward it's fault subject in the hope of somehow improving it." (tnellon.com).

-Satire is used within society to highlight our faults.

-We as a society learn through satire and open our eyes to the more ridiculous aspects of our nature, most prevalant at that time.

-Examples of contemporary topics of satire: Politics, obesity, terroism etc.

-Satire uses exaggerated characters and places them into "normal" social situations.