HUMOR AND SATIRE AS TOOLS OF SOCIAL CRITICISM IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LITERATURE

Abstrak

This article examines the role of humor and satire as effective instruments

of social criticism in the English and Uzbek literary traditions. Based on the analysis of key

works by Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Abdulla Qahhor, Gafur Ghulam, and other

authors, the study identifies general patterns and nationally specific features of using the

comic to denounce social vices, political regimes, and human weaknesses.