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Swift and Thoreau, Writing Style

a famous series of protest letters under the name of "M.B. Drapier." While his identity as the letter-writer was known throughout ...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...

Questioning the Past in Literature of the Enlightenment

It seems ludicrous to picture a womans toilette as dangerous, yet the humor, in part, derives from the fact that men of this era a...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

'Enlightened' Satire of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Swift and Voltaire satirized 18th century Enlightenment philosophies in their literary works. ...

Women's Voices on Africa, Patricia Romero

This book review is on Women's Voice on Africa: A Century of Travel Writing, which is edited by Patricia Romero. This text offers ...

Enlightenment and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

have consumed the island and its resources, it could pursue a useful policy for dealing with Irish children by butchering them and...

Two Types of Western Irony in the Works of Joseph Conrad and Jonathan Swift

In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...

Literature and Social Injustice

In four pages this paper examines how social injustice is represented in William Blake's poetry, 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan S...

An 18th Century Authors' Overview

is just one example, but he is still an example of a writer who characterized a generation. Swifts humor and sarcasm demonstrates ...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

And The Band Played On

about the condition and how people slowly began to realize the different ways in which AIDS may be transmitted such as through sex...

Anne Lamott: Traveling Mercies

and reinforcement. In her case, this led to fairly early experimentation with sex and drugs. Lamott doesnt sensationalize her exp...

Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

Abortion as a Woman's Right Regardless of Circumstances Involved

In this paper consisting of five pages the abortion argument is framed around the book 'Causing Death and Saving Lives' by Jonatha...

Time Travel Possibility

The common perception is that if time travel were available then the time traveller may go back and the prevent tragic events occu...

The Alchemist by Coehlo

kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...

Estates Satire and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

particular social classes. Its also obvious from this description that the three "estates" were based largely on whether or not p...

Satire in Hard Times

in which the employers basically had the ability to "starve" their employees back to work, on the employers terms. The 1850s in En...

Child Support Should Not Have to be Paid by Men

chins, pot bellies and receding hair line. With the proper car they have a much better chance of getting a young girl to agree to ...

Political and Cultural Satire in Gay's The Beggars Opera

This paper examines how Gay employs political and cultural satire in The Beggars Opera in 7 pages....

Tourism and the Internet

the internet as a distribution channel. 2. Patterns and Influances on in Tourism Tourism is one of the few areas of continued ...

The Surprise Ending of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"

This 3 page paper gives an analysis of the surprise ending of “A Modest Proposal”. This paper includes a history and summary of th...

4 Works of Literature and the Themes of Exploitation and Power

In eight pages this paper discusses exploitation followed by power renewal in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, Continental Dri...

How Women Are Treated in the Writings of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how the social irony of women's treatment shine through in 'A Modest Proposal' by J...

Reason and Different Views

In five pages reason as incorporated into the satire of plays by Moliere, Pope, and Swift are compared with classical heroic views...