A Modest Rhetorical Analysis

In paragraphs 29-31, Swift mentions several expedients, such as taxes, wearing homemade clothes, rejecting foreign luxury, curing vices among women, instilling the virtues of patriotism, taxing the absentees, and rejecting divisiveness while promoting honest, industry, and skill. Swift’s speaker stated at the end of all his expending, “How preceptors!” Swift’s rhetorical purpose is to make the reader realize that he is ironic as well as understand what he actually stands for. The reader learns that Swift is forced to resort to ironic tone to reveal his true intention, which would otherwise go unnoticed. Swift is ironic because there is no way his expedients could succeed in a time that Ireland was in, he was mainly trying to highly the economic problems affecting the county at the time.

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The speaker is a Protestant member of the Irish upper class, being Protestant in Ireland would also imply that the Swift sympathizes with the British that ruled over Southern Ireland at the time.  The British are oppressing the poor of Ireland greatly. The Irish who need to remove themselves out of this fallacious situation, leads him to his proposal, even though he claims sympathy for the predicament of the poor Catholic population which is the majority. Therefore he also holds an arrogant opinion of them, believing they are expendable since they are not bolstering themselves out of this dismal situation. He is vigorous to itemize the advantages of his proposed project for the elite, who would likely be called upon to execute it. Swift implicates

While one child receives a new gadget, another receives even more hunger. Although that truth is difficult to swallow, the reality is that there are a few children born into wealth and many others into extreme poverty; worst part is that the vast majorities of those children later lack even the tools to change their situation. An even more gruesome reality is the one that Jonathan Swift faced when he wrote his Modest Proposal in his native Ireland. Besides the lack of wealth, there were many issues such as mothers who were not allowed to work for their needs, or the handcuffing feudal system. Then there was the discussion of how the greed of today is literally destroying the Earth and our children in the process. Such that the children cannot share their gadgets in one country and others share their little food in another country. But Jonathan did say he was open to any other ideas, maybe our present time has the tools to end this inequality. If nothing

The Editorial Board of The Sacramento Bee, in their opinion editorial, “California is Adult in the Room Amid Childishness Over Bathrooms” (16 February 2016), argues that going to the bathroom is a necessity, and thus, lawmakers should not pass laws that base the legal use of bathrooms on the gender from one’s birth. They support their claim by first exposing the faults in the opposite side's opinions, then providing information on California’s plan for bathrooms, then promoting California’s policy that takes safety and comfort into consideration, and finally posing the solution of replacing gender-biased signs on the bathrooms with “all-gender” signs. The Editorial Board’s purpose is to make people who support strict gender-based bathroom laws

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The first speaker is Steve Jobs and my moment relates to the portion his speech when he says “sometimes life hits you with a brick. Don’t lose faith… don’t settle.” This quote directly relates to the tragic moment in my life when I found out that I was waitlisted from the University of Michigan Engineering school. That entire day after I found out just went downhill and to top it off, I had a track invitational later that day in Ann Arbor, at the University of Michigan. I probably took this event more seriously than most people because I worked so hard in high school with the goal of going to UMich but in the end it didn’t work out and I felt as though the last four years of my life have been wasted. After taking a few days to digest the news, I decided to move on with my life instead of dwelling on my failures. I committed to Michigan State University and I know for a fact I’ll do really well there and I won’t settle for subpar academic performances.

Analysis 1 is a well-supported analysis of the technical and aesthetic aspects of Solnit’s paragraph, which determines it to be ‘well-written’. Discussing which of the ten explaining/exploring methods are used could improve analysis. Also, consider in-text references for direct quotes.

“A Modest Proposal” uses ironic and cruel humor to target Ireland’s corruption and poverty. Jonathan Swift bizarre way of announcing his discontent in regards to the British and how Ireland is going down the hill, makes his audience uncomfortable but aware that there is an issue. Subsequently, Swift presents the idea of selling babies as food in order to stabilize the country’s condition. Morbid as it sounds, Swift continues to deliberately explain why this idea would be the perfect solution by stating that these children and their parents begging are “a very great additional grievance” (Swift, 2) and furthermore continues to state that the country should fine a way to make these children ‘useful’. Throughout the text, Swift makes a serious argument on why

Jonathan Swift (1667- 1745) is a satirist of the early seventeenth century, also known as the Age of Alignment. The Alignment is a period of knowledge and reason, as philosophy, writing, science and technology improved. During this time, Swift composed “A Modest Proposal”, a description of the conquered vast territory of the Ireland lands by the English, and how the wealthy protestant English families managed the captured land by abusing the Irish catholic. Accordingly, injustice is experienced by the Irish, as they are prevented from receiving an education and holding prominent positions. The Irish are arranged in a state of oppression by the way of the British; for instance, they are forced to remain in a starving condition. Moreover, the

Swift introduces individuals as authoritative figures to back his idea. He refers to acquaintances to prove that the social matter is not only an issue in Dublin but as well in other countries. Swift then includes statistics which imply benefits come from the graphic solution. He concludes all possible reasons and numbers and who that 120,000 children of poor parents are annually born and who could provide an an annual income to the lower class. His shocking proposals are supported by logical reasonings that were well thought. A total of 100,00 poor children that are one years old can be sold off to markets to provide for the economy. Poor children can be used for human consumption and can be “a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled.” The citizens in the economy benefit because individuals would receive money. The connotative words manipulates the emotional appeal. The graphic connotations he describes children such as “the carcass” or “reasonable dish” provokes the reader and audience to realize the veiled threat. Swift uses emotional appeal to connect with individuals and the tone throughout the content shocks individuals into realizing their overwhelming attitudes. The shocking solution gathers his targeted audiences attention to realize that the poor people are suffering and need help and that they are

Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal is an outstanding example of the “sharp wit and biting sarcasm” (Mortesten). Using sarcastic comparisons and ironic exaggerations, Swift captured reader’s attention with the first words of his essay; and led the reader through it in a playful manner, keeping the reader tense and curious – every sentence sounded even more ridiculous than the previous one. Yet besides entertaining the reader, the author was able to make the reader think about the true point of the essay - dreadful poverty and hunger that thrived in Ireland. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift begins by discussing the dreadful poverty flourishing in Ireland.

Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, “A Modest Proposal”, uses many media constructions to convey his opinions to the reader. Firstly, Swift uses the key concept that all media is a construction. Swift carefully planned his satirical piece to effect readers in such a way as to have them look inside themselves. The essay itself mirrors societies own radicalism and gullibility. This is proven when Swift writes, “ I have been assured by a very knowing American… that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food,…”

Many people have probably thought that the world might just have too many people on it. How many is it to be too many though? When do you start to make changes, and how do you control the population in a uncrude way? Well in a “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift he had a plan to not only control the population, but make the children not a burden, and help society. Who really knows though if our government, or any other is actually doing something as inhumane as this. There is a lot of things that happens within our government that we don’t know about on a daily basis.