SATIRICAL METHODS IN THE WORKS OF FOUR CONTEMPORARIES OF EVELYN WAUGH

Abstract

Before  analyzing Evelyn Waugh’s satirical  works it should be mentioned that Evelyn Waugh was not alone in satirizing the period between the  two World Wars. For examining  it we focus on his four contemporaries’ works. Thus, we take into consideration Ronald Firbank, Aldoux Huxley, Norman Douglas, Nancy Mitford’s works and make a comparison with Evelyn Waugh’s works. To begin with Ronald Firbank, being born in Britain on 17 January, 1886,  he was  the son of MP Sir Thomas Firbank and Lady Firbank. At the age of ten he went  to Uppingham School for two years and then on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. His first story, "Odette d'Antrevernes" was published in 1905, before going up to Cambridge.