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| What problem is Swift attempting to solve in this essay? |
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| what is his proposition--or solution--to this problem? |
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Definition
Grow babies--> 1 year old, eat babies of the poor people
(yolo) |
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| what stylistic characteristics does swift use to convince his readers of the validly of his arguments or to convince his readers that he is an authority on this matter? |
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| statistics to make him sound official with all sorts of numbers. The language he uses sounds like middle age. Cites authorities and different cases |
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| Make a list of the "advantages" of his solution (at least six) |
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1: less population of Catholics--> eat babies, less Catholics
2: Less abortion--> eat or sell babies
3: Poor will have money from babies --> no more poor!
4: Product will stock--> gloves, clothes, food (so effed up)
5: Advocate marriage--> productivity: no abuse, keep baby and woman
6: Less thieves
(in case can't remember one) 7: Tavern people will benefit--> new kind of serving (whatever baby platter) |
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Term
| How can you tell that this is satire? At what point were you aware that this was a satirical piece? |
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-Title is one way--> not modest
- Absurd, far out there
-How he writes it-- middle age writing, etc.
"You are killing them"- supports poor people and actually wants a serious actual solution |
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| List the real--not satirical-- solutions found in Swift's essay |
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-Your own country should make own clothes-local
-Pride, vanity, idleness-- cure--> don't let women be this way |
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| In general terms, what are the characteristics of this essay; that is, how would you describe this essay in order to use it as a model? |
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- Problem
- Bore--> statistics
- Absurd solution
- Justified solution
- other things it does -- money to poor = reduced
- States how bad it really is being poor
- points finger to wealthy English people--> to embarrass them |
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