I first came in contact with Swift's Modest Proposal in school where we read certain passages. I was immediately smitten with the nice way in which he wrote his satire. It is so businesslike that it is almost hard at first glance not to agree with his arguments and business strategy. That is, of cou...
Satirical musings upon the state of Ireland in the 18th Century, wherein the author of Gulliver's Travels tries to provide ways in which the country could provide for itself in an unusual manner...A mixture of satirical and semi-realistic essays with some poetry thrown in, A Modest Proposal illumina...
I think I mentioned before that satire and parody aren't my favourite genres. I try to be fair when rating these books and to take into consideration the effect the books had or must have had when they were published.This book was VERY hard for me to read. It was my second book by Jonathan Swift. My...
Reading this was like reading an article in The Onion... If The Onion was published in 1729 and less light-hearted. The essay was very well thought out and Swift was able to hit on quite a few serious issues.
Rarely have i read a text as smart as this one. No, i am not condoning cannibalism. I am an admirer for everything related to sarcasm and irony and this lampoon is to me what heroin is to a drug addict.Yes, the most important part of this book is the proposition : the poor people shall sell their on...
I continue to think that this supremely logical and inevitably practical work will become a part of American legislation any day now. You know, right after the FEMA camps have a permanent place in the common zeitgeist. Anyone want a potato?
Opening: It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. T...
I think the minimum words required to define this book will be - Brutality at it's best. This piece of literature goes on to define as many ways to slaughter children as it can, to relinquish one's poverty. So the message of the book is - Eat them if you can't feed them! :p
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