Satire refers to a way a writer ridicules an individual or the society in a humorous way,with the aim of bringing desirable change.
In Bertolt Brecht play,Caucasian Chalk Circle,satire has been used to expose weakness of leaders who have been entrusted with power and fail to do what is expected of them.People are oppressed and live in misery.The beggars and petitioners are crying that they do not have enough to eat and they feel neglected.
The policing administration is criticized for inhuman treatment of the suffering lot. They lash them with whips to keep them away from the Governor and his family instead of sympathizing with their plight.
The Governor and his wife pretend to be so religious yet they display their contempt for the lowly class.The Governor is a political leader but surprisingly lacks interest in political matters.He ignores the rider who has confidential papers from the capital in preference to personal matters.Instead,he meets the architects to discuss building plans.The Governor is ignorant of serious issues such as meeting held by Princes in the capital in which a coup was planned to withdraw the Grand Duke and his governors.His political nature is being ridiculed because being in a political position means he ought to accord political matters serious consideration.
The Fat Prince pretends to be much pleased with the Governor's family that he even bows and remarks sarcastically that Michael is a 'governor from head to foot' and yet he had planned to kill the governor that very day.When he tells the governor he loves the gay sky,he is not sincere.
Aniko,wife to Lavrenti and sister-in-law to Grusha claims to be religious. However,she is presented as mean,egocentric, selfish and inhospitable. She bullies around her husband and tries to throw Grusha out of the house for the fear of what the neighbours will say for hosting an unmarried woman with a child.
The monks religious hypocrisy is also satirized.He is expected to be religiously inclined but has many weaknesses. He oversees Grusha's marriage to Jussup while drank.He is actually paid to perform the ceremony but as a monk he is the expected to devote his life and time to religious matters which he does not.
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