1.The proposer or the Speaker of Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, appears to be the kind of person that is very sober and serious, and who I imagine to be very monotone. He explains all of the information very thoroughly and works hard to explain his reasoning. He sort of seems to deviate around the topics whilst explaining his logic. He displays intellect while narrating A Modest Proposal. In my opinion, he seems to really know how to make a great argument. He seems very detached throughout and a bit impersonal and not able to relate to his arguments because he comes off so serious and thorough.
2. I am slightly suspicious of the Prosper because he seems too impersonal and allusive in his narrating. He seems to show ruthlessness in …show more content…
It is difficult in this writing to be able to tell if Swift is supporting the Irish in this piece, or making fun of him. Although, a satire is normally a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at any imperfection, fault, etc. It criticizes someone of something using wit and clever wording. Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to bring attention to the abuses inflicted on Irish Catholics by upper class Protestants. Swift pokes fun or “satirizes” that Irish Infants are sold as food at the young age of one when they are plump and healthy and to give the Irish a new way to bring in money and boost the economy by giving the English a new food product and by removing one of their social problems. He also said that if his proposal was adopted that there would be a large decline in the number of Catholics in Ireland because most of the Catholics offspring would end up in stews and other dishes instead of growing up in the Catholic Church. Swift also pokes fun at the Irish for so many of them had accepted their abuse rather than taking action and standing up to it. I think that Swift, a man who supported the Irish and yet was disappointed in his career would produce something like this because it is the purpose of a satire. I think he still supports and empathizes with the Irish, but warped his beliefs into a satirical way and made the piece come about in a way that used humor, irony, exaggeration, and or ridicule to expose and criticize, in my opinion to satisfy other people’s stupidity or vices on topical
2. I am slightly suspicious of the Prosper because he seems too impersonal and allusive in his narrating. He seems to show ruthlessness in …show more content…
It is difficult in this writing to be able to tell if Swift is supporting the Irish in this piece, or making fun of him. Although, a satire is normally a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at any imperfection, fault, etc. It criticizes someone of something using wit and clever wording. Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to bring attention to the abuses inflicted on Irish Catholics by upper class Protestants. Swift pokes fun or “satirizes” that Irish Infants are sold as food at the young age of one when they are plump and healthy and to give the Irish a new way to bring in money and boost the economy by giving the English a new food product and by removing one of their social problems. He also said that if his proposal was adopted that there would be a large decline in the number of Catholics in Ireland because most of the Catholics offspring would end up in stews and other dishes instead of growing up in the Catholic Church. Swift also pokes fun at the Irish for so many of them had accepted their abuse rather than taking action and standing up to it. I think that Swift, a man who supported the Irish and yet was disappointed in his career would produce something like this because it is the purpose of a satire. I think he still supports and empathizes with the Irish, but warped his beliefs into a satirical way and made the piece come about in a way that used humor, irony, exaggeration, and or ridicule to expose and criticize, in my opinion to satisfy other people’s stupidity or vices on topical