in this presentation i put some points like what is menippean satire and how that menippean satire use in one night at the call center by chetan bhagat .

1.  Name : Amit s. Makvana
 Roll no : 01
 Enrollment No : 2069108420200022
 Paper no : 13 The New Literature
 Topic : Use menippean satire in ON@CC
 M.A. Sem -4
 Batch : 2019 – 21
 Email ID : a.makwana10998@gmail.com
 Submitted To : S.B. Gardi Department of English
MKBU

2.  Chetan bhagat is an
indianauthor, screenwriter,
and speaker. He was born on
22 april 1974.
 Chetan bhagat is one of the
most popular authors in the
fiction category in recent
times in india.

5.  This story is about six call
center employees that all six
agents going through the worst
night of their lives, until a call
from god not only saves their
futures , but their lives as well.
 setting of the novel is one
night . It was made into a
movie in 2008 with the title
HELLO. Directed by Atul
Agnihotri .

6.  it means a form of satire usually in prose,
which has a length and structure similar to a
novel and is characterized by attacking mental
attitude rather than specific individuals or
entities.

7.  menippean satire derives from the
philosopher Menippus ( 3rd century B.C), but it
was identified as a specific genre by the roman
satirist varro, an older contemporary of horace
whose works exist only in fragmentary form.
 It was imitated by Greek and Latin writers
and influenced the development of Latin
satire.

8. Characteristics
of the
menippean
satire
purpose of testing
philosophical truth,
especially through the
manipulation of
perspective
free ( from
history,
realism, and
legend) and
hence
fantastic
create extraordinary
situations
more comic
than socratic
dialogue

9. it mixes the fantastic ,
synbolic, quasi-
religious with “crude
slum naturalism”.
full of
contradictory
behaviour and
characters.
menippean
satire is a
seriocomic
genre
length and
structure
similar to a
novel
form of satire,
usually in
prose

10. menippean satire
Targets
mental
attitudes
viewpoints
Rather than
specific
individuals

11.  In on@cc we find the characteristics of
menippean satire.
 This novel present the current situation of the
society .
 chetan bhagat shows the real situation of the
people and chetan bhagat also critics the
society.
 in the novel we find that characters suffer
from the problems in their life.

12.  in the novel bhagat
represent the idea of
bossism that the boss of
call center who has a
power over these six
characters.
 god making a call,
marriage of two
different characters
radhika and priyanka .

13.  priyanka has problem
with her mother that
she tries to be free
from the restrictions
that was leads towards
the menippean satire
where profesion is
important than the
family so we can say
that , time of
modernization and
globalisation , because
of that , some
traditional ideas are
satirized.

14.  vroom has written an article when he
was working in some magazine that why
don’t politician ever commit suicide ?
There is indirect satire on the political
situation. That our nation is run by the
people who don’t feel anything. When
vroom has printed this article, at that
time he was question on media that they
don’t focus on real situation of political
society.

15. Positive
 job in the call center
 marriage
 idea of bossism
 idea of motherhood,
author satire on that
very humourical way.
 author talks about
american people in
humorical way. But
in a way it’s not real
satire because in
reality American
people are not doing
work as author
present here.
Nagative

16.  In Gulliver travels we see that characteristics of
menippean satire.

17. First part
1. Six inches
liliputiaons
2. satirizes politics
3.political tactics
Second part
1.Satire on human body
2. Human talents
3. human limitations
1.Satire on human
moral 2.shortcomings
3. satire on mankind
Gulliver Travels
Third part
1. Satire on human
intellect
2. human mind
3. science , philosophy
and mathematics
Fourth part

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