https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6 Realizzato dal gruppo tiffany en-us 2018-03-12 16:38:59 UTC 2025-11-02 05:53:59 UTC hello@padlet.com a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240980512  Swift was a brilliant polemist and his satirical vein and interest in the Irish problem is evident in his text of 1729 "a modest proposal". In this book swift tells the solution to the problem of starvation to death like a professional economist, though he is talking about using children as food. In fact with astonishing irony he is proposing to solve the problem of famine and hunger killing the 80% of all one-old-babies, and using them as food. Of course this is a subtle provocation: if we can allow people to starve to death, why not be less hypocritical and eat their children?! Swift intention is to shock the reader who is forced to either amused disbelief or unconscious acceptance. Swift shows us with simplicity the tragic facts: thousands of people, especially children, are starving to death, partly because of the reader's indifference. In fact the situation in Ireland was very bad: in the 18 th century extreme poverty, unemployment, lack of morality, high birth rate and criminality rate were destroying the population. The main oppressors of the poor were the landlords, who can be compared to cannibals: they have allowed the English control on the island and have devoured their own wealth. In the most important passage of the book, the narrator uses a technical and professional tone: he quotes numbers, figures, weights and prices to show the advantages of hi proposal. Then ha draws the picture of the country squire entertaining his guests with banquets, and he describes to us the image of a happy mother counting the money she has made selling her children; at last swift suggests us how to prepare good child meat.]]> 2018-03-12 16:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240980512 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240981578 2018-03-12 16:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240981578 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240982158 2018-03-12 16:43:04 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240982158 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240984294 Political pamphleteering was a fashionable pastime in Swift's day, which saw vast numbers of tracts and essays advancing political opinions and proposing remedies for Ireland's economic and social ills. Swift's tract parodies the style and method of these, and the grim irony of his own solution reveals his personal despair at the failure of all this paper journalism to achieve any actual progress. His piece protests the utter inefficacy of Irish political leadership, and it also attacks the orientation of so many contemporary reformers toward economic utilitarianism. While Swift himself was an astute economic thinker, he often expressed contempt for the application of supposedly scientific management ideas to humanitarian concerns.

The main rhetorical challenge of this bitingly ironic essay is capturing the attention of an audience whose indifference has been well tested. Swift makes his point negatively, stringing together an appalling set of morally untenable positions in order to cast blame and aspersions far and wide. The essay progresses through a series of surprises that first shocks the reader and then causes her to think critically not only about policies, but also about motivations and values]]> 2018-03-12 16:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240984294 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240996336 A modest proposal as well as being treated in many films such as that of Paolo Villaggio,where it proposed to solve the problem of immigrants by eat them, deals with current issues today such as hunger in the world and the destruction of countries from the war. In 2017, in countries like Syria, the infant mortality rate was very high because wars and terrorism have destroyed families and cities. Swift's thought and satire have affinities with what is happening today, the two societies are very similar being slaves of tyranny. Many people today do not have the opportunity to receive a appropriate education just as happened at the time of the writer, because they are constantly fighting for survival and to collect money just as happened in the eighteenth century]]> 2018-03-12 17:05:30 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240996336 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240999190 2018-03-12 17:09:51 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240999190 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240999654 2018-03-12 17:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/240999654 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/241000170 2018-03-12 17:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/241000170 a_montera00 https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/241007408 2018-03-12 17:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/a_montera00/pbgojk5en1j6/wish/241007408