Satire
A genre using irony, exaggeration, and ridicule to expose and critique folly, vice, or social and political institutions.
Satire in fiction: 15 works
Its two-dimensional world satirizes rigid Victorian social and gender hierarchy.
The novel satirizes consumerism, mass production, and the pursuit of frictionless happiness.
The novel satirizes religion, wealth, and cosmic meaning through absurdist reversals.
The novel satirizes organized religion, sexuality, and social convention through Smith's outsider eyes.
The novel satirizes science, religion, and the Cold War arms race with black comedy.
The film is a black satire of nuclear-war brinkmanship and military logic.
The novel's dark absurdism satirizes war and the way we narrate atrocity.
The story satirizes suburban conformity and the fantasy of the docile wife.
The novel satirizes bureaucracy, philosophy, and cosmic meaninglessness through absurd comedy.
The novel satirizes hypercapitalism, privatization, and franchise culture with deadpan excess.
The film satirizes reality television and manufactured, commodified life.
The film satirizes consumerism and passive, screen-dependent human comfort.
The series satirizes social media, surveillance, and our dependence on devices.
The film is a biting social satire of class inequality and aspiration.
The series satirizes capitalism's cruelty and the spectacle of the ultra-rich.