Imagine that there is a bully in school and he picks on everyone else and starts many fights. This bully runs for class president. The bully in this situation is not qualified to run for office because he has no positive leadership qualities. When a person does not make an exceptional or humane leader then they have no right in controlling others. When a leader is controlling others and not leading them he does not deserve to be the leader either. The classmates in this school are justified rebelling against this bully by running in opposition to him. Throughout history, England has been this stereotypical bully and the Irish have been the classmates. England is parallel to this bully because they are always picking on other countries
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Gulliver tries his best to bathe England in a good light: “[u]ltimately however, Gulliver’s praise of England backfires, leading the Brobdingnagian monarch to conclude that England’s history is just a series of ‘Conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres’, and other evils”(DeGategno 167). After a brief overview of England’s history, told in the most positive way that Gulliver knows how, the king condemns England to be prone to war and a country with an excess amount of bloodshed and conflict. According to Gulliver there are many causes of war, but one “very justifiable Cause of War [is] to invade a country after the people have been wasted by Famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves” (Swift 227). It is very important to note that Swift says this because Ireland is suffering from a potato famine and its own personal identity struggles already when England comes and tries to take over for good. English invasion when a country is this weak is unjust and even cruel. However, in the minds of the English and of Gulliver a cause as weak as a famine in another nation is a perfectly justifiable reason for England to go to war and to conquer another nation. This is a prime example for England’s propensity for war, any chance at conflict leads to a war in England. On top of that, it is inhumane to attack a nation when it is enduring a famine, this shows that finding a conflict anywhere is a quality that England possess and that they are desensitized to what the nation they are attacking is suffering with at the
Gulliver tries his best to bathe England in a good light: “[u]ltimately however, Gulliver’s praise of England backfires, leading the Brobdingnagian monarch to conclude that England’s history is just a series of ‘Conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres’, and other evils”(DeGategno 167). After a brief overview of England’s history, told in the most positive way that Gulliver knows how, the king condemns England to be prone to war and a country with an excess amount of bloodshed and conflict. According to Gulliver there are many causes of war, but one “very justifiable Cause of War [is] to invade a country after the people have been wasted by Famine, destroyed by pestilence, or embroiled by factions among themselves” (Swift 227). It is very important to note that Swift says this because Ireland is suffering from a potato famine and its own personal identity struggles already when England comes and tries to take over for good. English invasion when a country is this weak is unjust and even cruel. However, in the minds of the English and of Gulliver a cause as weak as a famine in another nation is a perfectly justifiable reason for England to go to war and to conquer another nation. This is a prime example for England’s propensity for war, any chance at conflict leads to a war in England. On top of that, it is inhumane to attack a nation when it is enduring a famine, this shows that finding a conflict anywhere is a quality that England possess and that they are desensitized to what the nation they are attacking is suffering with at the