Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
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In his lengthy literary career, Jonathan Swift wrote many stories that used
a broad range of voices that were used to make some compelling personal
statements. For example, Swifts, A Modest Proposal, is often heralded as
his best use of both sarcasm and irony.
In his lengthy literary career, Jonath ....
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.... is ironic since no one can take Swifts proposal seriously.
This irony is clearly demonstrated at the end of the story; Swift makes it
clear that this proposal would not affect him since his children were grown
and his wife unable to have any more children. It would be rather absurd to
think that a rational man would want to both propose this and partake in
the eating of another human being. Therefore, before an analyzation can
continue, one has to make the assumption that this is strictly a ....
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