Swift’s reliance on irony and satire were clever in writing his piece. Irony, as you well know, is a technique of indicating an intention opposite to what was actually stated. Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, and ridicule to attack a shortcoming; in this case, the depravation of needs from Ireland. By making a mockery of the situation, Swift, in effect, is making a mockery of the cause of the situation – the British. Throughout this passage, he states horrors such as “I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.” (p. 916, LOC) and “Those who are more thrifty may flay
S7 also highlights the importance of the conscription crisis, which can be argued to be a result of British ignorance, or the manipulation and stirring up by the revolutionary party Sinn Fein which also had a key role in the conflict. Finally it can also be argued that other factors were involved, which allowed the Irish conflict to be triggered, such as the failure of Home Rule and the breakdown of the IPP particularly during the Ulster Crisis, and after the Easter Rebellion of 1914. To an extent, it can be argued that the main cause of the Anglo-Irish conflict of 1919-21 was nationalist extremism. Hepburn asses that 'their [extremists] first opportunity' arose during the Ulster Crisis, in events such as the Larne gun-running incident April 1914, which ultimately resulted a race between extreme nationalists and Ulster Unionists to become armed . The source describes how the extremists then spiralled
The significance of the title is relative to the equal in-between state that marks the two main characters of Father Brendan Flynn and Sister Aloysius. Although based on real events, Doubt is a work of fiction, purposely constructed to make the viewer/reader think critically on the issue of moral ambiguity, most especially in the Catholic community. The play takes place in a time passed decades ago, in 1964, as if to lend a certain 21st century perspective on a time in America where change was rapidly taking place, and wherever there is change there is doubt as the chaotic new gives way to the traditional old. America’s ideals and images are changing as we see the birth of the Civil Rights Act, television reports of what is happening in Vietnam, and the aftermath of the JFK assassination. America as well as the Catholic Church is changing as it heads towards a millennial era.
The tone in the opening lines of a work of literature set up the reader to guess what the work will be about. If the opening lines are filled with angry damnation, the reader might guess that the work will be a sermon. If the opening lines are really sad, the reader would guess the work will be about something that upsets the author. The satire “A Modest Proposal”, by Jonathan Swift, does not quite follow this rule. The opening lines present a terrible tragedy in Ireland, so the reader quickly assumes that this work would be grim or present a justifiable solution to fix the problem.
Francois’ Candide, bashed the Christian power among many other things and was seen as a major contributor to the idealists of the Enlightenment. Voltaire was able to utilize Candide to demonstrate the most prominent issues of the Enlightenment period such as the hubris of nobility, how optimism and rationality is able to lessen the evils rendered by humans and criticize the revolution itself simultaneously. Even though the symbol of optimism is a key focus of satire in Candide, Voltaire did make sure that he pointed out the flaws of so called “Nobility” and its need of change in the new Enlightenment age. Voltaire ridiculed the nobles, along with their beliefs, showing readers that the previous way of nobility was arrogant and showed how change of this thought was important in the enlightenment period. Voltaire displayed this idea primarily through two main characters in Candide; the first was with Don Fernando and second was with Cunegund and her family.
He is saying that the government needs to help the Irish farmers but purchasing their produce and that the landlords need to have more heart for their tenets and help them if money is short instead of packing them up and kicking them off the land. So, he puts out there a shocking suggestion of the selling and eating of children as a means to an end of the poverty, despair and dependence of the all the poor on the government. Did he mean it truly? No, I don’t think anyone took it as a serious meaningful suggestion. What Jonathan Swift wanted to achieve was to allow people to read and form an emotion and to get angry at his absurd, inhuman suggestion and come up with some of their own suggestions.
The "Whig interpretation," as Butterfield calls it, sees history as a struggle between a progression of good libertarian parties and evil reactionary forces, failing to do justice to history's true complexity. The word Whig has its origins in the seventeenth century as a term of abuse against political opponents, and has become a convenient label for one historian to attach to another as a mark of scorn. In Butterfields work, he criticized historians who wrote present-minded history and, in so doing, fell with an echoing thud into traps, which superior historians must avoid. Through Butterfields five sweeping chapters, he makes three remarks that answer the question, why, despite the scolding of an entire discipline do modern historians seem to be drawn to anachronism, or as
This essay will attempt to describe rationalization and bureaucracy according to Max Weber. It will then define rationalisation and bureaucracy. In order for Weber to have made sense of what was going on during the protestant era, he had to rationalize why people were not enjoying their money. He then had to look at the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. Furthermore, the essay will donate to link the aforesaid historical phenomenon’s (protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism) to the advantages and of bureaucracy; it will also critically discuss the conflict theory (Karl Marx) and the functional theory (Weber) then critically discuss Weber and Marx views on class social stratification and status, it also going to discuss four values of social action and lastly answer the question why I support his ideas.
Translations – Kartikeya Gouthi With reference to specific episodes, discuss the presentation and significance of English characters in Translations. It is a common saying that “Everything is not as it seems” and Brian Friel’s play –‘Translations’ reflects the truth in this statement. Set in 1833, in the village of Baile Beag in the agricultural heartland of colonial Ireland, Translations explores the impact of intervention, re-mapping and anglicization of Gaelic names by the English. Translations is a play “about language and only about language”, and through this text Friel explores the effect of British intervention on Irish people, language and culture. However, what is also underlined by his descriptions of the English characters is that ‘Everything is not as it seems’.
Gustavo LaRotta ENLT Essay 1 2/16/14 Virtues in Dubliners: A Critical Review In Dubliners, James Joyce demonstrates that Dublin’s society in the early twentieth century is paralyzed. A major agent of the paralysis is Catholicism and thus, religion. Religion bogs down Dubliners, keeping them from advancement and allowing the continuation of a paralyzing routine. Joyce enlightens the reader of these problems through the use of the Catholic virtues. Dublin’s observance of Faith, Hope and Fortitude, and the non-observance of Temperance and Justice are symbolized by the characters and their actions in Dubliners.