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Analyzing 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

all. He knew that writing a political text lamenting the plight of the poor would generate little interest, so in "A Modest Propo...

Modern Day American Life and The Application of A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

of irony ("Literature" PG). Swift emphasizes the horrible poverty found in eighteenth-century Ireland as he ironically proposes th...

Gulliver’s Travels by Swift

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

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 ...

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...

A Satirical Solution to a Crisis of Day Care

In an essay consisting of five pages that uses A Model Proposal by Jonathan Swift as a paper model the writer facetiously asserts ...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

Shelley’s Ozymandias

the poem involves the power of antiquities, of ancient history and of those relics that are left behind after someones time and er...

Irony in No Exit by Sartre

the characters, in fact, notes that they are there without thought on the part of whoever put them together as they state, it is "...

1995 Novel Blindness by Jose Saramago

those few, see no apparent cause for the malady, and it does not leave people in the darkness, but rather in a white light - a wh...

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...

Directions for a Birth Day Song by Jonathan Swift and Irony

Laureate whose job it was to provide annual New Years and birthday poems. It was considered to be a competition, and obviously a c...

Bleak Human Condition in Metamorphosis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka

In six pages this analysis of Kafka's works focuses on the themes of fate's ironies and the human condition....

Jonathan Swift's Satire in A Tale of the Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travel

In a discussion of these texts consisting of eight pages this paper analyzes the satire of Jonathan Swift. Four sources are cited...

Shaku Zulu and Lilliputians

as an attractive rationally conducted people" but then "in chapter IV we learn of their violent internal factions, unceasing civil...

Uses of Propaganda in Oronooko by Aphra Behn, Spectator Number 69 by Joseph Addison and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift'

take a closer look at where it is headed in the overall scheme of existence upon this earth. Through his use of syntax...

Irony as a Literary Device

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

Jonathan Swift, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, and Martin Luther King Jr. on Responsibility and Freedom

In five pages the historical definitions of responsibility and freedom and how they have changed are featured in the works 'A Mode...

America as Viewed by Jonathan Swift

convinced that they have achieved unity between these often disparate political entities despite the obvious fact that nothing cou...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Post-Revolution Britain and Satirical Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at post-Revolution Britain and the satirical literature that emerged from there. Gay's ...

How to Reduce Infighting in the Bicameral Political System: A Modest Proposal

at the bicameral system that dominates American politics. Conventional wisdom has held that there are truly only two political par...

Birth Defects and Vitamin A Overuse

In five pages this paper discusses how birth defects including those involving the cranial neural crest and retinal issues can be ...

Using Irony in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses the novel's structure in terms of the influence of irony in its reinforcement. There are no ot...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

Outline for Paper on Jackson’s “The Lottery”

Hutchinson never protests the against the injustice of human sacrifice, but rather that the selection her family was not fair. A....

Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie

their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...

Defining Irony

and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The use of irony by Burgess in his novel is the focus of this paper consisting of five pages and includes the impact of dramatic a...