* Erewhon ( 1872 ) by Samuel Butler, constitute a satiric romp through a hidden utopia ( with dystopian elements ) in the Southern Alps, New Zealand.

Despite its satiric approach, the film has tragic elements and a clear social conscience about prejudice and injustice.

Writer Johnny Speight often commented that the character was supposed to be a figure of ridicule, but admitted that not all viewers saw the satiric elements of the character.

Later, extravaganzas took elements of burlesque performances, which were satiric and parodic productions that were very popular at the end of the 19th century.

His latest novel, The Good Humor Man, while a satiric homage to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, still contains elements of horror.

English nineteenth century opera is very heavily drawn from the " pastoral " form of the ballad opera, and traces even of the satiric kind can be found in the work of " serious " practitioners such as John Barnett.

Much of the satiric spirit ( albeit in a greatly refined form ) of the original ballad opera can be found in Gilbert's contribution to the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the more pastoral form of ballad opera is imitated, or at least emulated, in one of Gilbert and Sullivan's early works, The Sorcerer.

The first of these is in some ways connected to the " pastoral " form of the ballad opera, and the latter to the satiric Beggar's Opera type, but in all they represent yet further reinterpretations of the term.

Gilbert had targeted the aristocracy for satiric treatment before, but in this " fairy opera ", the House of Lords is lampooned as a bastion of the ineffective, privileged and dim-witted.

Ballad operas were satiric musical plays that used some of the conventions of opera, but without recitative.

The work took satiric aim at the passionate interest of the upper classes in Italian opera, and simultaneously set out to lampoon the notable Whig statesman Robert Walpole, and politicians in general, as well as the notorious criminals Jonathan Wild and Jack Sheppard.

It follows the tribulations of a star-travelling mercenary company in a satiric, mildly dystopian 31st-century space opera setting.

' It's one of the appealing things about The Forbin Project, an unpretentious science fiction film with a satiric point of view, that when the world is about to blow up, the President of the United States can only bring to the occasion something akin to embarrassment.

Libertinistic attitudes, such as ( sexual ) licentiousness, alcoholism, scouring and gaming, can be discerned in characters belonging to the satiric norm as well as to the satiric scene.

An anticlimax can be intentionally employed only for a jocular or satiric purpose.

The burlesque that Marsh captured can be described as raunchy and vulgar, but also comedic and satiric.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

In 1835, the New York Sun newspaper wrote a series of satiric articles that came to be known as the Great Moon Hoax, with statements falsely attributed to Herschel about his supposed discoveries of animals living on the Moon, including batlike winged humanoids.

Lucian almost certainly did not write all of the more than eighty works attributed to him — declamations, essays both laudatory and sarcastic, satiric epigrams, and comic dialogues and symposia with a satirical cast, studded with quotations in alarming contexts and allusions set in an unusual light, designed to be surprising and provocative.

His best satiric poem is regarded to be the burlesque, " Bal w Operze " ( The Ball at the Opera, 1936 ).

In literature, the digression ( no to be confused with subplot ) was a substantial part of satiric works of the 18th century.

The influence of Kozłowska was seen to be too strong ; this is why she was the victim of harsh attacks ( called often the incarnation of a devil, as in the satiric article " Where the devil cannot go, there he will send a woman " from 1906 ).

" Aravamudan himself stressed the satiric nature of the work and held that while it and Midnight's Children may appear to be more " comic epic ", " clearly those works are highly satirical " in a similar vein of postmodern satire pioneered by Joseph Heller in Catch-22.

Amongst the poems mention may be made of two Itineraria, descriptions of a journey from Milan to Brigantium ( Briançon ) and of a trip on the Po River ; an apology for the study of profane literature ; an epithalamium, in which Love is introduced as execrating Christianity ; a dozen hymns, after the manner of Ambrose, probably intended for church use ; epigrams on various subjects, some being epigrams proper — inscriptions for tombs, basilicas, baptisteries — others imitations of Martial, satiric pieces and descriptions of scenery.

The player must complete a special mission related to each Super Agent to be able to remove them from play, usually in an equally satiric fashion, like turning a thin woman into a fat one.

When Chaucer began to be treated as a treasure of English letters after his death, his satiric intent was lost.

Often satiric and topical, Purim plays were traditionally performed in the courtyard of the synagogue, because they were considered too profane to be performed inside the building.

Those who defend works described as escapist from the charge either assert that they are not escapist — such as, a science fiction novel's satiric aspects address real life — or defend the notion of " escape " as such, not " escapism "— as in J. R. R. Tolkien's " On Fairy-Stories " and C. S. Lewis's quotation, in his " On Science fiction " of Tolkien's question of who would be most hostile to the idea of escape, and his answer: jailers.

Given the highly satiric and erotic vein Ciullo d ' Alcamo may well be a fictitious name.

Twain actually encouraged it to be read as a replay of the Garden of Eden story in a satiric sense.

They were built in timber, mud brick, and later primitive concrete, and were prone to fire and collapse, as described by Juvenal, whose satiric purpose in writing should be taken into account.

Due, however, to their satiric and overtly liberal political inclinations, both operas were seen as unsuitable for public performance in the politically reactive cultures of Leopold II and later Francis II.

: This subgenre in its current usage is imitative in its style to mock, comment on, or trivialise the genre's established traits, subjects, auteurs ' styles or some other target by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

These contrasts are well known throughout Sweden and often appear in TV, films, literature and folklore connected to Norrbotten, for characterizing, satiric or dramatic purposes ( e. g. some characters in the books of Eyvind Johnson or the police detective Einar Rönn in the crime novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö ).

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

Tolstoy vented his anger by composing some satiric stanzas.

He came under the lash of Samuel Butler, who, making allowance for some satiric exaggeration, has given in the character of Sidrophel a probably not very incorrect picture of the man ; and, having by this time amassed a tolerable fortune, he bought a small estate at Hersham in Surrey, to which he retired, and where he diverted the exercise of his peculiar talents to the practice of medicine.

Goliardic poetry ( four-line stanzas of satiric verse ) was an art form used by some clerics to express dissent.

Chapman's friendship with Jonson, however, broke down, perhaps as a result of Jonson's public feud with Inigo Jones, and some satiric, scathing lines, written sometime after the burning of Jonson's desk and papers, provide evidence of the rift.

These were either satiric or spoof, which were very successful, and / or undue ; some lasted several seasons.

Only a few Russian rap artists have achieved commercial success: Detsl, Bad Balance, Kasta, Belarusian artist Seryoga, who combined original rap with the native Russian satiric song genre chastushka which some critics consider a new branch in the rap genre: rap-chastushka.

The lower middle-class life in the city was also examined by Aanrud in some comedies in a satiric way, but these comedies were mainly known only in the Norwegian capital and are today nearly forgotten.

The religious message in the work and its uncertain, possibly satiric, tone has also alienated some theorists from the work.

None of these universes are quite like our universe ; however, they all have some element or other in common, many of which Pohl develops to satiric effect.

Hardly a week passed without the communards staging some kind of satiric provocation somewhere in Berlin, which made headlines in the press.