Q: Samuel Butler's Hudibras is a satire on:
a) Catholicism
b) Romanticism
c) Moderalism
d) Puritanism
Correct answer: d) Puritanism
Samuel Buttler
Samuel Butler is an English novelist and artist. He became popular for his utopian satire, Erewhon, and the novel, The Way of All Flesh, an autobiographical novel. It focuses on the hypocrisy of the contemporary age. He is famous for writing a long satirical poem, Hudibras. It is a mock-heroic satiric poem. This poem basically attacks the Puritans and those people who are involved in the English Civil War. It is about eleven thousand lines and divided into three parts. The first one is published in 1663, the second one is in 1664 and the third one in 1678. The story is a satire on Puritanism which portrays the contemporary age. The image of Puritanism is flagrant and unfair satire. He incorporates religion, and science, with satires of socio-political, moral, and literary themes. It lacks poetry and consistency. The style of the poem is mixed with diction and figures of speech. He uses the iambic tetrameter.
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