Death of Sir Roger - Part B
How does Addison want to reform the society? [NU. 2015, 2016, 2020]
Joseph Addison was one of the great critics and social reformers during the regime of Queen Anne. He was a well known English essayist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was the only critic who knew the best how to ridicule anybody without causing a wound. Through his mild satire he tries to correct the contemporary society.
Addison was a great social reformer who brought about a change in the life of the contemporary people through his contribution to The Spectator, which he founded in collaboration with his friend Richard Steele. The aim of The Spectator was to criticize the follies and vices of the age and to improve the mind and manners of the contemporary society.
[The main aim of this work was to reform the society, and it was Addison’s task: “to enliven morality with wit; and to temper wit with morality”. He used irony and wit to mark his essay didactic. His essays were not ‘art for the sake of art’.]
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