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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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

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...

presented for him. He witnesses the sport of rope dancing. In this sport, a candidate for high governmental office balances himsel...

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...

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

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

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

dominated society. Furthermore, Miller and Swift point out that while words that are considered "masculine" traits describe admira...

a Prioresse/That of hir smiling was ful simple and coy./Hir gretteste ooth was but by saint Loy!/And she was cleped Madam Eglantin...

cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...

The writer provides a one-page outline for the upcoming paper on the ineffectiveness of Western warfare methods in Afghanistan and...

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

and Iraq, and that on the first day in office he would instruct military commanders to this effect. Obama stated that the war in I...

their own power and superiority. There was no real learning about the culture on the part of the Westerners, but rather a sense o...

In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...