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I believe I read this in college, and it made close to zero impression, but came back to it because of Hozier.
Eat Your Young has a chokehold on me.
Eat Your Young has a chokehold on me.
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This was a fun little reread to remind myself of the "innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual" proposal that Swift made.
I was talking to a friend about the "let them eat cereal" movement as well as the CEO of Kellogg's saying that poor families should eat cereal for dinner when I was reminded of Jonathan Swift. I told them about a Modest Proposal and they found it ludicrous and said they would look into it themselves.
I was talking to a friend about the "let them eat cereal" movement as well as the CEO of Kellogg's saying that poor families should eat cereal for dinner when I was reminded of Jonathan Swift. I told them about a Modest Proposal and they found it ludicrous and said they would look into it themselves.
The first time I read this, it was apart of a project for my senior English class and the entire story went right over my head. I took A Modest Proposal seriously and yet the satire was so obvious. I was horrified the first time I read it but when I reread it, I got the satire.
Great satire with the blackest of humor. Funny to imagine someone reading this without context!
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read this in the first semester of the year and really liked the irony in this essay, would have been crazy living through the irish famine and reading about how we could "just" let other people eat the “excess babies” to fix the problem
Loved A Modest Proposal which on its own would've received 5 stars, but honestly I am not sure I understood An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions and Enormities well enough to rate it properly.