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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 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...

Jonathan Swift/A Modest Proposal

"voluntary abortions and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children" (Swift 1641). At this point, Swifts narra...

Replicating Jonathan Swift's Satire in 'A Modest Proposal'

In five pages this paper presents a satirical version of 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift....

Shaku Zulu and Lilliputians

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

Swift's Use of Irony in "A Modest Proposal"

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

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...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

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...

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...

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...

Socrates' Observation 'The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living'

only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Yahoos in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

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...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

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 ...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal

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...

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch ...

Prejudice Against Gulliver in Lilliput

This essay focuses on the prejudice displayed toward Gulliver by the people of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Th...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

Food Symbolism in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how food symbolism or anecdotal references provide satire on human suffering in Jonathan Swift's...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the values presented in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Daniel Defoe's Rob...

'Outsider' and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

It is irrational to think that one is any larger than he/she should be or has a right to be. It is also irrational to think that ...