We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
HYPOCRISY AND CORRUPTION IN FOUR CHARACTERS OF SAMUEL BUTLER.
- Authors
Totten, Charles F.
- Abstract
The article discusses the four characters of Samuel Butler's poem "Hudibras." The poem is dominantly satiric, which is inherent in character writing from Theophrastus. Butler displays the characters of deceit, madness, corruption and hypocrisy in the poem. The author said that Butler developed the Theophrastan Character to its fullest capacity for satire that is as universal as human folly and deceit.
- Subjects
LITERARY characters; HUDIBRAS (Poem : Butler); BUTLER, Samuel, 1612-1680; VERSE satire; DECEPTION; HYPOCRISY; THEOPHRASTUS, ca. 371-287 B.C.; FOLLY
- Publication
Essays in Literature, 1975, Vol 2, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
0094-5404
- Publication type
Literary Criticism