Satire: literary genre
- Ridicule: vices, follies, abuses, shortcomings
Why?
- To shame
- Then intend to be led to improvement
Devices
- Use: wit
Ø Mostly funny
- Main purpose: social criticism
Topic: Diet
Diet. Diet. Diet. Nowadays, “diet” is a big concern for many people. There are motley ways suggested, and tons of what to dos and what not to dos. In this appearance-oriented world, people diet not only to satisfy themselves, but also to live more comfortably. It is true that those who are in good shape tend to get jobs better. This might sound silly but almost every female, at least once in their life time, tried diet. (Of course there are some people who never gain weight, but that’s only a “few.”)
As a result, literally “tons” of businesses targeting diet came out, including chicken breast, herbal life, detox, and variable fruit diets (banana, apple, etc.). Why should people give up eating all those palatable foods instead of going against the vogue?
Although I myself am stuck in today’s fashion of diet, I’d like to try some satire on diet, in a way like Miner’s “Body Rituals among the Nacerima”
I add some videos and pictures below.
Click this to watch Onion’s
Another one~ click
And a YouTube
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