ENGL121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
1 Aug 2018
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Written around 1729, book version around 1930, 3rd edition of the book. Summary: about colonialism, how the english are treating the irish. "the english are eating up th literally saying that it is better if you eat them, because you will put them out of their misery. "although, i am glad to name up a country that will eat up our whole nation without" (swift) Swift made a proposal on how the other - england - is going to solve the unemployment and po. With that, he supported his ideas with statistics that the england nation (that are known as weal the hierarchal aspect. Thus, initiates the discriminatory behaviours from the english people. Thu behaviour and to receive more respect the england should literally eat the irish nation. Swift state stress on families of feeding so many mouths and overcrowding.
