English 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foodie, Polenta, Industrial Revolution
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A modest proposal for preventing the children on poor people in ireland from. Being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. Catholics were deprived of the right to serve in government, and ireland itself was ruled from london. By 1714, only 7% of irish land was owned by the majority catholic population. English statues crippled irish trade and manufacture by restricting or penalizing it. Swift is celebrated as a patriot of ireland. Swift didn"t blame the famine for ireland"s plight. Large font for word children evokes emotion. Emphasis on words proposal, children, poor people and country. Giving information, listing facts with great detail. Tries to pull on the reader"s heartstrings. Can be compared to modern click- bait, wants you to become engaged. As text progresses, it becomes less passionate/emotional and more factual and measured. Just dropped from it"s dam - its dehumanizes child and implies they"re a.