The difference between Satirist and Victorian is the level of reality they present in written work. Satire is a use of sarcasm and wit to twist what is real to exaggerate the faults and weaknesses of it. The stupidity of humanity is a popular subject to satirically write about for a good number of today's authors. The structure and status of government is also heavily poked at. We don't know why we do these things. Many say it is to better our ability to deal with the hardships in life. To be able to experience loss and pain and death without suddenly having the urge to whither away and die.
So, while Jon Stewart and Kurt Vonnegut are turning real life issues we have today into tornadoes of hyperbolic situations that will cause the sky to fall, Victorians, during the era of Queen Victoria, based their creations of poems and stories on a structured truth of reality. The contrast shows such a diversity in the way our generation and theirs processed, and how they saw the world versus how we think we should live in it.
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