" However, Nikolais ability to feel fulfilment in nature and love, to enjoy music and arts is something that in a way, makes him the hero of the novel. He together with changed arkadii is capable to enjoy and lead a life fulfilment, unlike others. While Nikolai is a man of the forties, Pavel is seemingly more a man of the 30s - similar to Pechorins (Woodward 1996:30) Pavels views ar shown to bwelong to `narrow class boundaries' (Dunaev 1883:199) Pavel is heavily satirised- anglomania, use of french, style. The figure of the true aristocrat is represented by Pavel. In Chapter X Bazarov criticises Pavels manner of speech-- , , , , -- , -- , ... ! . As noted by Woodward (1996:62) as "abstractions without meaning for the mass of the people with which the gentry, he contents, contrieve to justify their indolence". Bilay (56-57) coments that Nikolais XI chapter tender heart shows that he has "had his day".
Jonathan Swift: combined parody, with its imitation of form and style and satire in prose; technique to create fictional speaker (Gulliver), utter sentiments which intelligent reader recognises as self-satisfied, egoistical, stupid. Master of understaded irony. Gulliver’s Travels (greatest of satires). Fashionable guise of travel book, ship surgeon, fantastic locasions, liliput island (pompous habits of liliputs satirised). The Battle of the Books – mimics the style of excitable journalism in a debate on the relative merits of the ancients as against the moderns in literature, fought between Bee and Spider. A Tale of a Tub – personates a madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”. Alexander Pope: 2 great mock-heroic poems, series of Horatian imitations, 4 verse epistles on moral themes. The Rape of the Lock – based on piece of real-life gossip. The Dunciad – savage attack on hacks
1 The theatre also attempted to widen national identity. Mare ja ta poeg (Mare and Her Son, 1935) by Aino Kallas, referring to events of the St. George’s Night Uprising; Lipud tormis (Flags in the Storm, 1937) by Hugo Raudsepp, Nimed marmortahvlil (Names in Marble, 1939) by Albert Kivikas2, both based on the War of Independence and its consequences. In a lighter vein, the witty allegorical play Kuningal on külm (The King Feels a Chill, 1936) by Anton Hansen Tammsaare satirised many ideas from the past and present and their contradictions, the King representing the decline of the Old World. 1 Looming (Creation) 9 (1933): 1081. 2 Based on his novel of the same title, the play was co-written with August Annist, it was filmed in 2002. The film industry was centred in Tallinn around the studio Eesti Kultuurfilm (Estonian Cultural Film, 1931-1940, and sponsored by the Cultural Endowment).