Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Political Satire. It needs to be at least 2000 words.Download file to see previous pages... The novel is a complex and varied piece of work which c

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Political Satire. It needs to be at least 2000 words.

The novel is a complex and varied piece of work which contradicts the limitations of such a definition. it is more, or perhaps less, than the statement suggests and may possibly defy categorization.

In addressing the 'political satire', there is evidence that de Bernieres sought to ridicule and indeed satirize various political ideologies. Yet later criticisms and commentaries on the book actually refute that hypothesis, though almost every political view is represented throughout. In examining the portrayal of Fascism, in the form of Il Duce, Mussolini, this is certainly a good example of satire, supported by the literary use of bathos and rhetoric.

HO LET THAT CAT IN HERE[...]IS THAT THE CAT THAT SHAT IN MY HELMET[...] STAND BACK OR YOU'LL CATCH A BULLET TOO...I shouldn't have to look at all this blood and mess[...] Give me my helmet, quick, I need something to be sick in.( de Bernieres, 15)

{If the word HAT were included, a nice bit of ironic doggerel would have resulted). Not only is this marvelously bathetic - the image of a great leader reduced to a wild and gibbering idiot by the presence of a cat but the allegorical intent is obvious. The killing is messy, inefficient, the suffering ignored in favour of his own egotistical perceptions, and the request for someone else to clean up the mess, all provide a prophetic image of what Fascism represents. The historical context of the man and his deeds, the killing and loss are all brought to mind by this scene.

On the other hand, de Bernieres attacks Communism by the portrayal of the characters involved in ELAS, the resistance movement. Irony and sarcasm are evident. Mandras is shown as an ignorant fool, and worse, a murdering rapist, hero-worshipping the sadistic Hector, as

e had learned from Hector that he was not a fisherman, but a worker [...]Mandras was beginning to feel enlightened and knowledgeable, and he worshipped Hector, that stronger

and older man who had been in the thick of the fight at Guadalajara and routed the Italian Fascists. Where is Gualalajara In Spain (de Bernieres 32)

Using a straightforward rhetoric, the author depicts Hector as thoroughly bad. hose villagers reported us to Myers. I think we should go and teach them some lessons collaborating bastards.(220) He is epitomised with the words of the New Zealander, Barnes, thus, hat's the trouble with

bad hats [...] they always jolly well end up at the head.(221). This statement may well be understood as satire, as it seems highly unlikely that such colloquial English would be uttered by a New Zealander. But the words inform, with proverbial wisdom, that it is easy for corrupt people to become leaders, a truth which resonates with meaning for the whole novel.