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Modest Proposal

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The satire in the Swift story "Gulliver's Travels", for example, said that "horses are the rational, clean while the humans are greedy, filthy, and irrational." In fact, these satires become a reality in the Borowski story "This way for the gas" because his parents sent to camp and never return, and the prisoner in the camp went to the transport organization. The Schutzstaffel men killed the people on the train, took all of their things, and then the camp men will put the corpses in the truck. Some people were killed alive with the gas such as the handicap girl. Three S.S men held her arms and the one leg and threw her over the corpses on the truck then burn them. The irony in the Swift story "Modest Proposal" mentioned that if they wanted to get rid of Catholics why they do not sell the infant of the poor as food for the rich because the poor's were the Catholics. …show more content…

They both suffered before they could publish any poem. Both of them were having a woman in their lives. On the other hand, Tadeusz Borowski was born in a low-income family, and his Family was Catholic. They took away his parents when he was a child because his father sent to a labor camp when he was three years old, and after four years they also expelled his mother. They arrested Borowski and his prospective spouse named Maria Rundo. They sent to Auschwitz. After they released from prison, they get married. Finally, Borowski committed suicide by

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During the early 1700s, Ireland experienced economic and social turmoil— unemployment was high, Ireland was experiencing a social class war, and lower class families struggled to obtain food. Renowned author, Jonathan Swift, sarcastically proposes that the country set a quota of 100,000 children to be set aside as a food supply. Swift’s over exaggerated proposal is a subliminal message to the Irish Government that has done nothing to mend the factious and fractured social classes and economy of their country. Throughout “A Modest Proposal,” Swift theorizes a process analysis of the system and social conventions that would be established if Ireland were actually to resort to cannibalism. In his sarcasm, Swift uses many instances of over exaggeration, similes, and parables to convey his obscured message about government reformation.

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Popular essayist and satirist, Jonathan Swift, in his pamphlet, “A Modest Proposal,” (which at first was anonymously published) is proposing a solution to end the famine in Ireland. He adopts a sarcastic and straightforward tone in order to explain his outrageous proposal to the Irish public. Swift’s purpose is to bring to light the terrible situation of the Irish people and to propose a way to fix it. In this pamphlet, he proposes to end the famine by outrageously suggesting eating and selling Irish children. Swift begins his pamphlet by describing the sad and poor Irish streets with mothers and child beggars in rags.

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Swift pulls on ones heart strings by making the subject of his paper the consumption of infants and small children as a way to boost the economy. An example of this is when he states that women cannot have abortions (Swift, par 5) but could sell their children to be slaughtered and served on a platter, much like livestock (Swift, par 10). For Swift to express such a hypocritic opinion was extremely risky, but served its purpose since it surely stirred up the emotions in many readers. The idea of a family sitting down and devouring an actual infant child for supper creates a disturbing image, but the image of a mother selling her infant creates a unique reaction. One’s first response to this would be absolute disbelief, which in a way helps establish the papers validity by causing the reader to second guess why one would do such a thing.

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At the time when Swift’s proposal was made, Britain’s dictatorial reign in Ireland had left the nation in poverty and disarray. Criticising a nation was much easier to do in a joking tone or be harder to read rather than direct and upfront. Swift wanted to discuss these issues and found by writing in satire he could have the readers’ attention in way that a seriously written piece could not reach. Satire is present when Swift convinces the audience that he is an empathetic individual introducing the proposal with a sophisticated and compassionate manner beginning in the sentence, "I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection (1)," luring the reader into a sense of false trust as he begins the descriptions of the poor in Ireland. The reader is led to believe at first that this is a serious essay however it is not until deep into the proposal the reader can see how Swift uses satire to propose his thoughts found in the sentence, “a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled;” continuing on that, “no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust (1).”

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What’s the difference between a baby and a peanut butter cup? The baby won’t stick to the roof of your mouth. Jonathon Swift was a satirist, essayist, pamphleteer, and cleric who became dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. In 1729 Swift wrote A Modest Proposal, a satirical essay, suggesting that by selling Irish children it might ease their economic troubles. The pamphlet mocked the heartless attitudes towards the poor.

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Probably one of the most known ideas of the Enlightenment was a distrust of emotion. Western society at the time had a backlash against emotion and relied entirely on reason and knowledge. This distrust of emotion was used in A Modest Proposal with a lack of pathos in Swift’s argument and a lack of any inkling of feelings the citizens of Ireland may have had. Swift cut off any moral connection by referring to mothers as breeders and children as meat and carcasses. Swift argued that mothers would sell their children for ten shillings, without a second thought, just to feed themselves and keep on breeding (316-317).

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Swift uses his satire as a way to draw attention to daily conditions that many families in Ireland are suffering from. His extreme plan of eating children is used as a way to draw the attention of the government towards helping improve the economy. By using irony Swift is able to help make his plan a more believable solution to invoke change. Even today Swift 's plan can be seen as a persuasive technique, using logic and statistics to convince the

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Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is a very interesting take on how the Irish government should cure the famine that the country was then facing. However, the entire proposal was completely bizarre, and the whole point of the essay was to bring attention to the idea that they needed a solution to the all the problems they were experiencing but the proposal was definitely not it. He even had a strongly developed plan as to how his proposal would work which makes the reader feel as if he is serious about selling children, eating them, and/or using their skins as a fashion accessory; however, ultimately this proposal is not his true goal. Jonathon Swift skillfully used different styles of writing, such as imagery and irony, to show why the Irish should sell their children to the rich to eat.

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First, he presents a problem, along with facts and calculations. Like for example when Swift discusses the “prodigious number of children” that were causing an “great additional grievance” especially in the “present deplorable state of the of the kingdom” (Swift 1200). He reels the reader in by describing images of extreme wretchedness and utter hopelessness, then he employs the use of rationalism to play down the reader’s moral considerations. He successfully uses logic to get the audience to subconsciously lower their moral defenses and seriously consider his proposal. Jonathan Swift’s use of sarcastic irony confuses the reader as to the essays true purpose, effectively causing them to put down all guards so that they will have no safeguards when he aims his penetrative

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