I had amoebic dysentery once and it is horrible to try to kill. ...You have to take a nasty drug that causes all sorts of nasty side effects. And it stays in your system until you kill it.
The role of satire is to ridicule or criticize those vices in the society, which the writer considers a threat to civilization. The writer considers it his obligation to expose these vices for the betterment of humanity. Therefore, the function of satire is not to make others laugh at persons or ideas they make fun of.
1 Introduce the following definition of satire to the students: A literary work that ridicules its subject through the use of techniques such as exaggeration, reversal, incongruity, and/or parody in order to make a comment or criticism about it.