Question

Saki has used satarical elements in the story "Mrs.Packletide's tiger" explain giving citing examples...

Answer 1

Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm or ridicule. It usually exposes or is held up against an individual as a scorn. It denounces one’s follies, flaws or vices.Mrs. Packletide's Tiger is a satire on the sanity and vanity of humanbeings. It also talks about the superficial levels of cheap mentality which layers the modern society. We come to know from the story that Mrs. Packletide was a very greedy andmaterialistic person. She was also a mean lady who believed insadistic pleasure. Thus, we find her arranging for a lunch the purpose of which was to make Loona Bimberton feel jealous at her success, name and fame