For as long as there has been literature in English, there has been satirical English literature. Satire as a literary device traces its roots to ancient Greece, where Aristophanes used plays to ridicule political leaders. All eras of English literature include satirical works -- from the "Canterbury Tales" to Sue Townsend and with many stops in between. Satire serves a purpose, often a political purpose, in literature.
What Satire Does
“Satire is a powerful art form which has the ability to point out the deficiencies in certain human behaviors and the social issues which result from them in such a way that they become absurd..............
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