Section outline
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The 18th century is essentially an Age of Satire. Judging and condemning became common to the society of this age, and this habit naturally gave birth to the spirit of satire. Actually in the e18th century satire is everywhere in the air. There is satire in poetry, in drama, in prose, as well as in the essay and novel. Indeed it is a great age of Prose-Satire, and Jonathan Swift, the greatest of prose Satirists in English, belongs to this period. Addison and Steele are the other remarkable prose satirists of the century. So Satire is the predominant form of literature of the 18th century and Swift, Addison and Steele used this powerful weapon in their famous work.
Lesson Objective:
--Students will be able to identify and restate the literary characteristics of 18th century English literary period.--Students will be able to analyze critically any text of eighteen century English literature.
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