As we read “Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God” during this week, my teacher, Ms. Besl, asked my class to create a Parody out of Jonathan Edward’s work. According to the dictionary, Parody is best defined as an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Even though they are supposed to be funny, some parodies are kind of grotesque and also use a lot of satirical devices, what creates scary thoughts on some readers, which keep wondering if the author is serious or just being satirical. Parody has entered our day-to-day life through hilarious parody movies that mimic famous blockbusters. “Vampire Sucks” parodies and pokes fun at “Twilight” which was a film adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s novel “Twilight”. Another famous parody example that could be used is “Sonnet 130” by Shakespeare, which is a parody of traditional love poems common in his day. He presents an anti-love poem theme in a manner of a love poem mocking the exaggerated comparisons they made:
“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;”
Even though sometimes parodies are considered to be better than the originals, they are also dangerous when referring to the audience or even the author, which may reasonably feel offended depending on the gravity of the parody and the theme.
Thus, parodies can be used to either criticize or make fun of other works, and definitely appeals to the reader’s sense of humor and the fact that it pokes fun into society’s ideals and also the fact that it is far from the seriousness are considered to make the reader more interested.
I thought it would be fun to show some attached images' examples of parodies! Enjoy!!
I really love how you gave modern examples of parodies. I never thought about some of them as being a parody before so it was really interesting.
ReplyDeleteI loved your example of Mozart using parody in his poem. I probably would have never thought of it that way. I also like how you added those photos at the end that further explains parody; my favorite was the last one :)
ReplyDeleteI love how you defined what a parody is, and how you used hilarious examples of such at the end! Your definition of what a parody is and how you explained it is spot on!
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