Exemplification Essay: The Role Of Humor In Society

According to dictionary.com, satire refers to “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” (Dictionary.com) During the enlightenment period when Voltaire wrote Candide, communicating one’s displeasure with social and political issues was not acceptable and those who did were often looked down upon. By using satire, Voltaire is able to exaggerate his feelings while at the same time mocking social norms and those in power. Voltaire uses satire in Candide to communicate his opinions on several topics, which include, suicide, religion, sex, and the philosophy of optimism to name a few. Voltaire’s Candide is a story of a young man’s adventure and how his experiences change his philosophy on life. Although Candide’s adventures begin with a rather positive confidence that he lives in “the best of all possible worlds” his attitude is quickly transformed when he realizes the world is in fact full of evil.

One of the tweets says, “I hate you, stupid beaner!” Another tweet says,”Go back to where you came from.” The third person who talks about their experience with cyberbullying is Hannah Nissen. In the commercial, they give us a visual-aid of, what is assumed to be, a tweet. In the tweet it says,” It’s NOT a human right to be mentally ill homosexual.” Another tweet says,”Good morning gay people I hate

Fig.1 Not only does this meme make fun of the hashtag stay woke, it also makes fun of how some people take racism seriously (“Funny Stay Woke Memes of 2017”). They make racism seem like some sort of extreme concept. The sentence within the meme shows that conjectured extreme. Next comes the people who actually take this word seriously. More often than not woke gets used incorrectly.

People being bullied online. Cyberbullying is bullying that happens online on social media sites. People thinks it's okay to bully other people online but no it's not okay. Cyber bullying is similar to The Crucible by people dont like when people act differently. One person starts it and then others will jump in just like how they did when they started to accuse people of being witches in salem in 1940 and 1950.

War comedies, for instance, have an underlying theme in which war is negative and horror filled, but to say it outright show the grotesque horrors of war would get the movies struck down and hated and coming out and publicly speaking of the negativities of war would get the speaker labeled as a coward, weak and unpatriotic. There is also people such as John Stewart or Stephen Colbert who use comedy and satire in order to bring upon a great justice, to inform the people of the news and current events. While many consider their work to be funny, it also carries with it knowledge, in a medium in which it can be well understood and well received. Artists like Charlie Hebdo, drawing political cartoons that mock violent ideologies, die because of their messages, showing just how large the cause actually is and just how important the humorists really are. Without someone to speak the uncomfortable truth, in a way the people will listen, the world would not be where it is today.

Using Satire to Convict Social Media Social media has inspired a stronger set of issues in the lives of the current youth, according to Shannon Purtle in “Why Social Media Should Be Left Alone”, specifically issues dealing with authenticity. In a time when social media is on the rise, Purtle addresses the lacking of real connections and endangerments surrounding magnified typical teenage issues caused by those programs within the lives of young Americans. As a teenager, or young adult, there is an immense amount of exposure to assimilation from one self-conscious teen to the next unsure teen. Through using satirical strategies such as an ironic tone, ridiculous and contradicting rhetoric, ironic questions and analogies to common phrases, Purtle

Christy Wampole identifies the primary reason she feels modern young people adopt an “ironic” persona as the lack of culture the generation has to offer. As she describes her reasons for feeling this way, her statements could be classified as a claim of value, and in my opinion, it is not very convincing. I do agree with some of her points, and her piece is definitely thought-provoking, however, she attempts to prove her opinions based on judgements because of her own belief system. To Wampole, the young generation should not dress hipster, because it is not a true expression of who they are, but instead, it is an ironic way of life. To Wampole, all of the forms of art that are being “imitated” is just a repeated version of generations before, and in

William Shakespeare exemplifies how things always appear worse than they are by making the speaker in sonnet 29 realize that he should not wish to change things about his life in order to highlight the wrong with humans wanting to change things about themselves. In using diction, Shakespeare is able to develop the concept that humans wanting to change pieces of themselves is wrong.

A person 's decision impacts others in an utmost way, because they provoke us to behave and act in specific ways, especially when it comes to cautious content in books and the censorship of them. To illustrate this idea and relate it to a recent event, popular “meme” page admins on a prominent social media website, Facebook, have been boycotting the site due to the sites active use of censorship, according to an article written by Sage Lazzaro from The Observer. The admins and

Some characteristic of self-deception are irony, lying, and denial. “In irony a man annihilates what he posits within one and the same act; he leads us to believe in order not to be believed; he affirms to deny and denies to affirm; he creates a positive object but it has no being other than nothingness” (Sartre “Self-Deception and Falsehood” 300). Self-deception consists of irony since it is said that person leads other to believe in order not to be believed or in other words, it is a lie since he is trying to hide something that he does not want others to know about. For example, if something embarrassing was to happen to somebody they will do their best to convince the rest of the people that heard about it that it is not true that it was just a misinterpretation and so he is trying to make them believe something that it is not true to make them not believe what they heard. Self-deception also consists of lying to oneself since it says that they create a positive object or they replace a negative memory with a positive one.

The most important aspect of modern life that Bradbury got wrong was that he predicted society to become ultimately desensitized and that ridding of our favorite aspects of life would fly under the radar. Because of social media and smartphones, citizens have become hyper sensitized to anything and everything. Rather than pushing things away and ignoring all emotion, we freak out and over analyze things that happen, and this is amplified by social media. Rather than becoming desensitized like the citizens in Bradbury 's future, we have become over sensitive and are offended in some way by almost everything that is said or done. We are able to access these things by social media, which is a great platform to grieve in great detail why the thing

Due to the advances in social media it seems to me that the world is only getting stupider and stupider especially. All they are worried about is what everyone else is doing online and yes I know

Nathan Jurgenson’s sarcastic and affiliated remarks in his essay “The IRL Fetish,” published in an online magazine, The New Inquiry, help bring about the point that people often look at the world in black and white, online and offline, instead of on a gray scale. He is a sociologist who openly makes fun of others who comment on how the world should unplug completely from online structures; he names them hypocrites. His coined remark of “digital dualism” summarizes what these critics mean, of how the offline and online cannot coexist, but he concurs that people can live in the middle of these realms, for the offline cannot exist without the latter. This is an agreeable assessment on the use of technology, seeing as how the term was coined by

The Facebook Sonnet is written by Sherman Alexie and was published in the in The New Yorker Magazine on May 16th 2011. The sonnet discusses and reflects upon the current generation’s infatuation, and borderline obsession with social media, that is far deeper than what is seen on a surface level. Alexie provides his own opinion of the website, conveyed through his diction and cynical tone. He analyzes how Facebook is furthering the immaturity of youth by creating users who worry about ways to make their lives appear fulfilling to the general public, in contrast to the mundanity in which they truly live. The second to last stanza of the poem, which will be analyzed in this paper, discusses the comparison of an online community replacing a religious institution.

There is a general belief among social media detractors that this form of communication is dehumanizing. People who spend all of their time updating their social media platforms with 140 characters of thought will fail to recognize the nuance of a real issue. It is common for a person with a potentially controversial stance to be completely dehumanized by social media lynch mobs, who do not care about the nuances of his message, rather, simply want his/her life destroyed for daring to oppose the mainstream narrative. Whether the goals of this opposition are good or bad, their message is often contained within a social media bubble where the nuances are completely missed. This leads to arguments on social media that completely miss people’s real points and instead engage in fallacious arguments that wander off topic (Miller,