Similar labor and living conditions had leading the world economic systems but as Marx and Swift address: the workers are not only objects of market production but human being (Machan, 109-111). Swift compares children as objects of commerce and dehumanizes them by referring to them as meat (Swift, 1199-1201).
In a different time frame but with analogous condition, William Blake witness the outrage against children during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.” …show more content…
Certainly, we live in a capitalistic society that has many benefits but also many misfortunes for the unprotected. In theory, Marx’s ideas are favorable for all social classes without the selfish bourgeois or the oppressed proletarian. But the reality is that in practice the communism oppresses more than the capitalism. The people losses the rights and they are force to live in a control government where the dictator commands and the society only obeys. “A Modest Proposal” is ironically an insane proposal that dehumanizes children and present them as items of commerce. This essay is only a clearly picture of the Irish society that people ignored and Swift brings it to the public eye. In “The Chimney Sweeper” we see child labor exploitation during the midst of the Industrial Revolution. The sweeper masters and society snatched children their childhood. The society accepts the children inhumane living conditions. Blake speak out and openly critique outrageous children labor. Both works address the conflict of oppression and the outrage of the weakest. Where the wealthy or most powerful uses the poorest to benefit itself regardless of the damage or the moral value of the
In a different time frame but with analogous condition, William Blake witness the outrage against children during the Industrial Revolution. Blake was born on 1757 in London. He is a prophet, poet, painter, and engraver. Blake have radical political views and revolutionary standards (Raine, 7-13). He published Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794 both of these publication contain a poem called “The Chimney Sweeper.” …show more content…
Certainly, we live in a capitalistic society that has many benefits but also many misfortunes for the unprotected. In theory, Marx’s ideas are favorable for all social classes without the selfish bourgeois or the oppressed proletarian. But the reality is that in practice the communism oppresses more than the capitalism. The people losses the rights and they are force to live in a control government where the dictator commands and the society only obeys. “A Modest Proposal” is ironically an insane proposal that dehumanizes children and present them as items of commerce. This essay is only a clearly picture of the Irish society that people ignored and Swift brings it to the public eye. In “The Chimney Sweeper” we see child labor exploitation during the midst of the Industrial Revolution. The sweeper masters and society snatched children their childhood. The society accepts the children inhumane living conditions. Blake speak out and openly critique outrageous children labor. Both works address the conflict of oppression and the outrage of the weakest. Where the wealthy or most powerful uses the poorest to benefit itself regardless of the damage or the moral value of the