Satire

Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal certainly carries a very strong impact and is a powerful piece of writing that can leave an audience stunned. It is a satirical narrative, about overpopulation and famines in Ireland, and Swift’s opinion on what can be done to solve it. The “proposal” he had in mind was that people simply fatten up and eat the children, because he believes that they serve no purpose and in actuality are merely contributing to the complication at hand. Swift also uses…

I enjoyed reading the story from Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door by Robert Fulghum since it was an interesting narrative with eloquent language that teaches a valuable and powerful lesson about daily inconveniences. In the story, Fulghum is a hotel front desk clerk who is aggravated after his employer serves him sausage wieners and sauerkraut for lunch 7 days in a row (the horror). As a result he articulates his anger into a lengthy rant to his coworker, a wise…

Swift proposes “he shall take in whole number infants at a certain age who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them as those who demanded our charity in the streets”() Though, who said those parents want to hand over the children to be the communities meat market. Swift also introduces another “great” advantage to his scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, although this is not a logical or rational thought. If the practice of eating children were to happen…

Irony, you may not think of it as much more than a minor literary device, but it often plays an enormous factor in short stories today. For example, The Interlopers, by Saki, is a short story which utilizes the effects of irony noticeably well by using ironic humor to connect the reader to the reading. To define, irony is when the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs. In this case, the story displays a strong sense of situational irony, which is irony that no one knows is coming. Irony…

In her explanation of a hook, Weiland says, “…stripped down to its lowest common denominator, [a hook is] nothing more or less than a question.” She is asserting that the best of hooks with pique the interest of the audience, and cause them to generate their own questions, and will be propelled into the story in order to answer them. Hooks can provide information, even partial information that doesn’t fully gratify the readers’ inquisitive nature; but rather exacerbates it. Weiland compares a…

Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: A Critique of The Male - Dominated Society Talluri Mathew Bhaskar Lecturer in English A.P.R.J.College Tendulkar successfully brings out the ugly cultural deformity of our society through his plays. He depicts gender deformity in Kamala, political deformity in Ghashiram Kotwal , physical deformity in Sakharam Binder, mental deformity in Encounter in Umbugland and Kanyadan and spiritual deformity in The Vultures --Manchi Sarath Babu Abstract:…

In Diary of a Part-Time Indian the main character, Arnold uses drawn cartoons to express his view of the world. In a way, it is how Arnold best speaks to the world. He draws cartoons not only for fun, but also to let his voice be heard. Cartoons allow him to tell the world his hopes and dreams as well as his fears and things he hates. The two most pertinent examples of this in my opinion, come in the form of the cartoons Arnold draws when he starts with Reardan, and the almost sacrilegious comic…

The American Dream tries to make an attempt to present a cynical expression of repulsion against false American optimism. Albee has taken over the responsibility to write a play that throws away the false virtues and vices of the American culture and at the same time familiar with the fall of that culture. The play can be seen as a close inspection of the circumstances of the modern man on both sides of the Atlantic. The archetype of the American family is criticized by exposing the…

Discuss tone and the use of humor in either "Day Million" or "The Seventh Voyage." What is the author of the work satirizing here? How is he projecting his tone to the reader? Connect your discussion to the theme of the story. In Frederick Pohl short story, “Day Million” is a love story. According to the critic David Samuelson "Day Million" is a love story set in the future when, "genetic engineering and social change have modified the meaning of gender, the forms human bodies can take, and…

The fictional stories “The Sneetches” and “The Butter Battle”, written by Dr. Seuss, demonstrate the struggles in society. In “The Sneetches”, a civilization had created somewhat of a hierarchy where those that have stars on their bellies were treated like royalty, and those without were left in the shadows.“The Butter Battle” focuses on a society that was pitted against each other because of the side of toast that they ate their butter on. Dr. Seuss argues that the illusion of power, evils of…