¶ … Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, tells the conditions of poor, rural Irish families facing starvation and desolation caused by brutal oppression from their neighboring and bullying country England in 1729. The length of the title of this essay introduces the satirical form that Swift uses in this essay, and helps demonstrate the effectiveness of literary tools, and consequently captures the audience's attention and entertains the reader leaving a lasting impression. The purpose of this essay, is to examine Swift's writing by highlighting his use of satirical tools that are used to demonstrate the piece's effectiveness and increase the overall artistic value and appeal of this literary work. Satire has the intended effect of grabbing the reader's attention by employing irony, hyperbole, humor and other nonstandard techniques to colorfully describe the authors interpretation of his environment in an attempt to contribute to the overall quality of the story. A Modest Proposal, the shortened title this work, is an excellent example of satire as it is full of these techniques displayed in a biting critique of the treatment of humanity from the oppressive and controlling English towards the more humble and substantially poorer Irish folk of the time. In...
The ironic content of the message of this essay, requires a certain understanding of the situation in order to feel its greatest artistic impressions. Swift uses the role as the narrator of this tale as an antagonistic figure, urging for a violent and ridiculous solution to poverty and famine within the island of Ireland. This desired scheme Swift has in mind is that the children of poor Irish families are actually eaten for sustenance and food, and use as a commodity in trade to uplift the Irish families and create a harmonic balance within the arguing situation between England and Ireland. The use of irony, starting off from the ridiculous title, and used effectively throughout this essay, is common in many forms of satire. Suggesting one thing but meaning another, an effective characteristic of the use of this literary tool, is consistent throughout the entire tone of this written work demonstrated by the suggested use of cannibalism…
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To this point, Chouliarki (2000) argues that "the facilitation of deliberative processes among audiences is a matter not only of changing institutional arrangements (towards a regulation of marketized media) but also of changing the mode of articulation of media discourse itself; even though the latter may be a consequence of the former, each is a sine qua non-for deliberative democracy." (Chouliarki, 293) To an extent then, these approaches to language
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