Agenda

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Agenda

• Neoclassical Theatre Satire
• Neoclassical Architecture
• To get
• Piece of paper for your opener/exit slip
• Human Spirit Textbook Return when finished
• To do
• Opener Reading
• Satire and Architecture Notes

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Adventures in the Human Spirit Opener Pg. 317

• _______ is the literary or artistic attitude that
  aims to improve society by its humorous
  criticism.
• Eighteenth-century satirists hoped that laughing
  at social evils would help to _____ them.
• Who spent his literary talents on efforts for
  social reform?
• In, A Modest Proposal, what did Swift suggest as
  a solution to hunger, poverty, and
  overpopulation?
• Was he serious?
• How do you know?
• What was the name of Swifts satiric masterpiece?
• Who is known for painting pictures of moral
  corruption?
• Who was the middle class public eager to laugh
  at?
• Name the series of paintings that, mocked the
  bourgeois(upper class) social climbers and
  degenerate nobles (wealthy landowners without
  morals) who married off their children for their
  own advantage.

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Neoclassic Theater- SATIRE
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Neoclassic Theater

• During this time period, writers were concerned
  with style, wit, and a rationale approach to
  life.
• Stages during this period became enclosed and
  were proscenium arch stages.
• Actresses were finally able to have careers.
• In France, the leading comic dramatist was
  Moliere.
• High comedy combo of Roman acting techniques
  with slap stick of commedia dellarte.
• Comedy of manners made fun of customs, social
  class, costumes, speech and gestures of the
  middle class.

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Satire Theater

• satire (sat'ir') n.
• A literary work in which human vice or folly is
  attacked through irony, derision, or wit. It aims
  to improve society by its humorous criticism.
• The branch of literature constituting such works.
  See synonyms at caricature.
• Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or
  expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
• How does the following video clip illustrate
  satire? Amish Paradise

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Types of Satire

• Horatian
• gentle, sympathetic satire where the subject is
  mildly made fun of with jokes that poke at the
  subject
• Juvenalian
• harsher form where the subject is subjected to
  contempt and condemnation
• Menippean
• choatic, formless satire that satirizes the
  structure of the world as well as its subject
  matter.

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Satire does
Satire at its heart is concerned with ethical reform. It attacks those institutions or individuals the satirist deems corrupt.
It works to make vice laughable and/or reprehensible and thus bring social pressure on those who still engage in wrongdoing.
It seeks a reform in public behavior, a shoring up of its audience's standards, or at the very least a wake-up call in an otherwise corrupt culture.
Satire is often implicit and assumes readers who can pick up on its moral clues. It is not a sermon.
Satire in general attacks types -- the fool, the boor, the adulterer, the proud -- rather than specific persons.
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Satire In Modern Images

• In the introduction to the Simpsons, identify
  what the following images mean
• Bart writing on blackboard
• Bart on his skateboard
• Homer leaving and driving home from work
• Marge at the checkout
• Lisa playing the saxophone
• Family racing towards the couch

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Jonathan Swift

• 1667-1745
• Irish
• Used literary talents for social reform
• Works Include
• A Modest Proposal
• I have been assured by a very knowing American
  of my acquaintance in London, that a young
  healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most
  delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food,
  whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ...
• Gullivers Travels

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William Hogarth

• 1697-1764
• English painter
• Picture series of moral corruption
• Audience was middle class public eager to laugh
  at neighbors
• A Rakes Progress
• 8 paintings
• shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell

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The Heir
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The Levée
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The Orgy
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The Arrest
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The Marriage
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The Gaming House
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The Prison
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The Madhouse
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Modern Usage of Satire Based on History

• As we watch the following clip on the Simpsons,
  complete your viewing guide.
• Its due at the end of the block.

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Modern Usage of Satire Based on History

• As we watch the following clip on the Simpsons,
  complete the following chart in your notes

Scene Example of Satire/ Description Criticism about the subject as made by this example
Henry XVII
Sacagawea
Mozart
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Modern Usage of Satire Based on History

• Henry XVII
• Separated Anglican Church from the Catholic
  Church (made himself head of the church of
  England)
• 6 marriages 3 (official) heirs (Edward VI, Mary
  1, Elizabeth 1)
• Sacagawea
• accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, in
  their exploration of the Western United States.
  She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota
  to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806.
• Mozart
• You already know about him )

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Neo-Classical Architecture
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Thomas Jefferson

• -1743-1826
• -helped write Declaration of Independance
• -3rd President
• -founded University of Virginia
• -neoclassical architect
• -ambassador to France in 1780s

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University of Virginia WebsiteThe Rotunda
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Monticello

• 1770-1784
• Charlottesville, VA
• Estate designed by Jefferson
• On top of 850-foot mountain
• Translates as little mountain in Italian

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• A bed in the wall conserved space.
• The portholes provided ventilation for
  off-season wardrobe.

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Desk with letter copier.
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• 2nd floor octagonal room with an oculus.
• Does this look familiar?

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Main Entrance In the rear?
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Access to up stairs rooms was provided by a
balcony.
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• When the library of congress burned he donated
  his book collection to re-start the library.

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• Sitting room with a harpsichord.
• This room is below the 2nd floor room with the
  dome!

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• The breakfast nook was closed off in the winter
  to conserve heat.

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• After the Civil War Monticello fell into
  disrepair as the descendents of Jefferson were
  not able to afford its up keep. Eventually it
  was donated to the historical society and saved
  from ruin.
• Video Montage

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Virginia Capitol

• 1785-1796
• Located near the James River
• Designed by Jefferson
• modeled after the Maison Carree, a Roman temple
  in France

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Virginia Capitol
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Maison Carree
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Virginia Capitol
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Maison Carree
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Petit Trianon

• 1762-1768
• Balance/simplicity of neo architecture
• Near Palace of Versailles
• Built by Louis XV for his mistress
• Louis XVI gave it to his 19-year-old Queen Marie
  Antoinette

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Exit Slip

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