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Literary Satire

In 5 pages literary satire through history is examined in a discussion of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, As You Like It by William Sh...

Enlightenment and the Literature of Voltaire, Moliere, and Jonathan Swift

In two pages this research paper discusses how the Age of Reason is reflected in Candide by Voltaire, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Gul...

Jonathan S. Petrikin's The Third World

their positions within the country, many who do are consistently hindered from achieving any form of success at bettering their pr...

America's Schoolchildren and Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities

In five pages this paper discusses the argument the author makes within the context of inequities in U.S. public school funding. ...

Caribbean and the Foreign Policy of the United States

America's foreign policy in Central America, most notably in the Caribbean, is analyzed in a paper consisting of five pages....

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

intent of exploiting its people, resources, or land. This definition fairly well characterizes the attitude with which the British...

Sociopolitical A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

In ten pages this paper examines how Swift examined England and Ireland in his writings with the sociopolitical A Modest Proposal ...

Facetious Alternative to 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper offers a facetious rebuttal to Swift's essay that advocates abortion over the 'trouble' of establishing m...

Narrative Voice in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift and 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

In five pages the use of narrative voice by these authors in their respective works is contrasted and compared. There are no othe...

'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. ...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

Satire in Books One, Two, and Four of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift satirizes his functional changes in these books with a consideration of sociology and ...

Distortions and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift employs distortions in this satirical work in terms of offering deeper insights into t...

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...

Irony in 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper discusses the author's use of irony in the essay 'A Modest Proposal.' One source is cited in the bibliog...

Oppressed Peoples and the Sympathetic Words of Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

"good" people of the country should think seriously about using infants at the age of 1 as sources of food and material. The entir...

Comparing Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and Oroonoko by Aphra Behn

virtue and happiness. However, some may dispute the presumption that the desire to reflect another is at the root of ones disloya...

The Satirical Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

uses to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). ...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and How Satire is Used

be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...

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...

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...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Plot Analysis Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where the normal-sized man is regarded as a circus freak by the six-inch Lilliputians. They cant fi...

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...

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...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Theme of Pride

1931). The Lilliputians are also petty and small-minded, easily susceptible to corruption and think nothing of going to war over ...

Critiquing Part 4, Chapter 5 of 'Gulliver's Travels' by Jonathan Swift

is based upon Lemuel Gulliver, who was a ships surgeon and he tells of being shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput (Summary of Gul...

Comparative Analysis of Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Alexander Pope

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

4 Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians...