In the book "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte I noticed an instance of satire. The two main characters in the book, Cathering Earnshaw and Heathcliff are wild and rebellious. One night they run off to Thrushcross Grange where two other kids their age live. Catherine and Heathcliff make fun of them while spying on them through the window. Those two kids are civilized, the perfect example of civilized memebers of society. They would be described as "pompous." Later in the book Catherine ends up marrying the guy she was making fun of and she becoming civilized herself after she riduculed him. This is satire because we see ridiculousness and irony in this part of the book. Those two things are components of satire and are included in the definition.
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