* TomSharpe's ''{{Wilt}}'', while primarily comic farce, is also a bitter satire on academic bureaucracy and the heirarchy within colleges and universities. The theme is more deeply developed in the later books of the Wilt series, but Sharpe, a veteran of the unglamorous end of British higher education, makes some pretty trenchant points about what education should actually be ''for'', and lays into the sort of people who let ambition, or wooly thinking, or vested interests, get in the way of delivering education to the people who arguably need it most. the Ipford Technical College is there primarily to provide vocational trades education and continuing education to adults who missed out earlier in life: its Principal misses the point entirely and is wasting the budget trying to get the place one step nearer becoming a university, for his personal prestige. Despite the fact this is not what it is intended to be and it is far more effective doing the job it was built for. Interfering politicians, Ministry of Education bureaucrats, political extremists, trendy teachers, ridiculous or grandiose "Mickey Mouse courses" and others who get in the way of the purpose of education are also mercilessly hammered.

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* TomSharpe's ''Literature/{{Wilt}}'', while primarily comic farce, is also a bitter satire on academic bureaucracy and the heirarchy within colleges and universities. The theme is more deeply developed in the later books of the Wilt series, but Sharpe, a veteran of the unglamorous end of British higher education, makes some pretty trenchant points about what education should actually be ''for'', and lays into the sort of people who let ambition, or wooly thinking, or vested interests, get in the way of delivering education to the people who arguably need it most. the Ipford Technical College is there primarily to provide vocational trades education and continuing education to adults who missed out earlier in life: its Principal misses the point entirely and is wasting the budget trying to get the place one step nearer becoming a university, for his personal prestige. Despite the fact this is not what it is intended to be and it is far more effective doing the job it was built for. Interfering politicians, Ministry of Education bureaucrats, political extremists, trendy teachers, ridiculous or grandiose "Mickey Mouse courses" and others who get in the way of the purpose of education are also mercilessly hammered.

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* ''TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Very Juvenalian, the novel satirizes [[TheEmpire Imperialism]]: The Nautilus itself it’s a parody of TheEmpire - a OddlySmallOrganization that manages to be a NGOsuperpower, their members only [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden consumes sea products]] and [[ConLang speak only their own language]], but we never know any of them, nameless masses. The only one who matters is Captain Nemo (the Emperor), who [[{{Egopolis}} claims a entire continent on his name]] and constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon [[AboveGoodAndEvil for no other reason because he can.]] The three prisoners personify the attitudes about TheEmpire of the conquered nations: [[StockholmSyndrome Aronnax is the high class, who tries to get all the knowledge he can from the Empire]], [[TrueNeutral Counseil is the middle class, who passively accepts his loss of freedom as something inevitable and doesn’t want to make a decision without the approval of the high class,]] and [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Ned Land is the lower class who rebels constantly and uselessly]]. However, after seeing Nemo’s KickTheDog moment with his WeaponOfMassDestruction, the three classes agree that [[StartMyOwn Nemo’s empire]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters is as bad as any other]].
* TheManchurianCandidate (the original novel) satirized Red Scare politics of the 1950s and McCarthyism in particular. Extremely Juvenalian.

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* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': Very Juvenalian, the novel satirizes [[TheEmpire Imperialism]]: The ''Nautilus'' itself is a parody of TheEmpire - a OddlySmallOrganization that manages to be a NGOsuperpower, their members only [[FromMyOwnPersonalGarden consumes sea products]] and [[ConLang speak only their own language]], but we never know any of them, nameless masses. The only one who matters is Captain Nemo (the Emperor), who [[{{Egopolis}} claims a entire continent on his name]] and constantly crosses the MoralEventHorizon [[AboveGoodAndEvil for no other reason because he can.]] The three prisoners personify the attitudes about TheEmpire of the conquered nations: [[StockholmSyndrome Aronnax is the high class, who tries to get all the knowledge he can from the Empire]], [[TrueNeutral Counseil is the middle class, who passively accepts his loss of freedom as something inevitable and doesn’t want to make a decision without the approval of the high class,]] and [[ChronicBackStabbingDisorder Ned Land is the lower class who rebels constantly and uselessly]]. However, after seeing Nemo’s KickTheDog moment with his WeaponOfMassDestruction, the three classes agree that [[StartMyOwn Nemo’s empire]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters is as bad as any other]].
* ''TheManchurianCandidate'' (the original novel) satirized Red Scare politics of the 1950s and McCarthyism in particular. Extremely Juvenalian.

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