Essays 1 - 30
In 5 pages this paper discusses Swift's satirical depiction of Anglo Irish landlord and Irish peasant tenant relations in A Modest...
readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...
people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...
"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...
voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...
is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...
This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...
convinced that they have achieved unity between these often disparate political entities despite the obvious fact that nothing cou...
In five pages this paper presents a satirical version of 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift....
as an attractive rationally conducted people" but then "in chapter IV we learn of their violent internal factions, unceasing civil...
a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...
the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...
speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch ...
personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...
not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...
not the only way, and it may not be the best way of thinking either. Although one may argue he does not transform completely and u...
form of thought a solution may be found to this problem. At this point he notes that a child, just "dropped from its dam" would ...
As Gulliver learns their language he has come to hear the word "Yahoo" over and over and he has little understanding of who or wha...
"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...
cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...
This essay focuses on the prejudice displayed toward Gulliver by the people of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Th...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...
This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...
linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...
of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...
dominated society. Furthermore, Miller and Swift point out that while words that are considered "masculine" traits describe admira...
way, this scrutiny becomes a very valuable tool for literature. After reading these two stories and comparing and contrasting the...
to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). Howev...
finds himself in Lilliput, which is in a constant state of war with their enemies, the Blefuscudians over the ridiculous issue of ...
by Swifts outstanding ability to use satire in his ongoing critique of society. In each Swift uses satire to ridicule those custo...