Parodies
are exaggerated versions of the truth. Without parodies, we wouldn't gain
nearly as much insight into our society today. As I am writing a parody now, I
am truly appreciating the beauty of them.
My
parody concerns school in the point of view of a totally evil principal.
There's so much gold there! Usually, I have to make multi-dimensional
characters that people can relate to in my stories but in parodies, it's
unnecessary. I am free to play around with stereotypes and to make them as flat
and one-dimensional as I can. It's pretty fun and it’s not like anything I've
done before.
Parodies
are really silly, first and foremost. That’s the whole point of why they are
even made then. They're meant to entertain and they're meant to make people
laugh and a lot of the time, they end up succeeding in doing so. What makes
them so funny are all of those little specks of truth mixed into them, a truth
so distorted that it has been transformed into fiction (like all jokes, of
course).
At
the same time though, parodies are serious under those layers of silliness. The
joker usually has something serious to say under the shroud of comedy, though
it probably isn't something apparent to all of it, of course. Parodies zero in
on something's weaknesses, criticizing it with a smile rather than a scowl.
They accentuate its basest qualities and then they expand on it. While they
might make you laugh, they also end up making you think right after thinking
about everything.
Many
who would get defensive when treated with vitriol laugh when they are shown a
parody and they see their own weaknesses in a much clearer way. A society is
much more likely to see its own faults when they see them written out. For
these reasons, parodies are extremely important to society. Ultimately,
parodies are a sign that we are still able to laugh at ourselves, to end up
laughing in its face.
For
the above reasons, parodies are quite difficult to write. As I write it, I
wonder if I am being funny enough. Wonder if my characters are too exaggerated, that they are too far
away from the truth that I ended up writing them all from. Yet whenever I find
myself thinking such things, I end up stopping myself. I can't really end up
doing all of that, though. The thing about parodies is that you can't take them
too seriously. I can't take my own writing too seriously either. I mean,
usually when I make something funny, it's because I'm not thinking about how to
end up making too funny. I don't know what I'm supposed to think when I’m
writing it and I think that’s a good sign.
I
am one of those contributors to the world, however insignificant of a writer that
I am. I am recognizing while I write my parody is that school is incredibly funny
and that that makes it gold to write for a parody, of course then. At the same
time, I am also pointing out all of the flaws and the corruption in the public
school system without ranting it out in a bunch of different blog posts. Maybe
it will end up making it much more effective in that way, who knows? I don’t
know what to think.
A
parody is the reflection of society in the mirror of the world. They are a
permanent footprint on the ground of history and for that, I will forever value
them.
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