How does the author use the historical setting to create complex, yet believable characters? Choose one or two characters to focus on and use evidence from the text to support your response.

As you read in this lesson, satire depends on the audience recognizing and agreeing with the satirist’s implicit criticism of his or her target. how effective can satire be in shaping behavior or opinions if the audience is always in on the joke and thus never the target? your answer should be at least 250 words.