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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
Das ist eine ganz seltsame Lektüre. Ich las es im Englischen Original aus dem Jahre 1729 und hatte stellenweise meine sprachlichen Schwierigkeiten. Aber auch wenn ich ja weiß, dass es eine Satire ist, ist es doch sehr befremdlich mit seinen konkreten Rezept- und Gewürzvorschlägen. Sicherlich ein wichtiges Werk seiner Zeit und wahrscheinlich nicht mal so weit her geholt, dennoch ließ mich das Buch mit einem seltsamen Gefühl und einem Fragezeichen über dem Kopf zurück.
‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick’ otherwise known as simply 'A Modest Proposal' is anything but modest.
'I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.'
This satire was said to have been written in response to the heartless response to Irish poverty and the policies of the leaders at the time. ‘A Modest Proposal’ goes into extreme detail on how selling infants after the age of one will be beneficial to society which was quite humorous, indeed; however, as a satire it was obviously meant as a mockery and I do believe it hit the mark.
'I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection.
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.'
This satire was said to have been written in response to the heartless response to Irish poverty and the policies of the leaders at the time. ‘A Modest Proposal’ goes into extreme detail on how selling infants after the age of one will be beneficial to society which was quite humorous, indeed; however, as a satire it was obviously meant as a mockery and I do believe it hit the mark.
A girl in my satire class, for which I read this, actually thought this shit was real, yo! Anyway, she was only mildly offended that Swift suggested selling and eating babies to solve poverty. Jaw drop.
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Last night my daughter asked me to watch what passes for comedy to pre-teens on Nickelodeon; a show low on laughs but high on laugh track. It's Halloween week and of course the thematic drum of cheap scares and slutty costumes (those of you dads that have 11 year old girls know what it is like to take a knee at the end of the show to have a side-bar chat about this topic alone) plays large when midway through the episode a six year old girl dressed like a failing barrister circa 1735 comes firing on stage screaming at her parents because they got her a Jonathan Swift costume instead of the requested Taylor Swift. This is where I wanted to pause live TV to tell my daughter about the original Swift, about A Modest Proposal - how our current American culture screams for someone like him to write about our never-ending race problem, our soul sucking capitalism-at-any-cost, our failed PAC-fueled political system. But my daughter is 11, I am 45, it's late on Saturday night and I don't have it in me. I watch the Jonathan Swift girl rant and rave and I drool thinking about delicious Irish babies in a white wine sauce.
i'm sorry to everyone who hated reading this in high school but he ate* this. the landlord digs. the paragraph where he goes, "of course, no one has a better idea, except--" and proceeds to list about a dozen better ideas in one great run-on sentence. get em john
*pun unintended. whoops
*pun unintended. whoops
I don't remember reading this, but I gave it 4 stars, so it must have been funny at least.