A modest proposal

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  • Created on: 30-01-24 21:17
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  • A modest Proposal
    • GRAMPS
      • Genre-essay (satirical)
      • Register-formal language + satircal (changes purpose
      • Audience-The educated classes
      • Mode-written and printed
      • Purpose-persuade,entertertain, inform (teritary)
      • critiques of poverty witnnesed and to provide solutin
    • Context and content
      • Swifts was incredibly poor growing up
      • Swift had previously made several proposals to Itish gov to help poor
      • Swift felt the irish goverment didnt do enough for the poor and didn't treat them as humanly as people with money
      • Highlighted the poor quality of life poor children lived
      • He mocked the goverment and critiques the upper classes
      • we should eat the poor
      • It is a polemical piece
        • Expresses a strong critical attack ot/or controversial opinion about something or someone
    • Language used
      • Scientific and factual langguage
      • "breeders"
        • anamalistic
        • gendered languag
      • semantic fields
        • of labour e.g."honest livelihood"
        • to dehumanise poor
          • "merchants","saleable commodity","yield","four times that value"
        • of cooking "stewed,roated,baked,orboiled"
      • religious lexis
      • pronouns
        • poor constantly referred to as "they"
          • seperate
        • "demand our charity"
          • collective pronoun
      • oxymoronic language
        • e.g."humbliy propse"
      • list of threes
      • objectify poor
        • always beggars
        • "they"
      • complex senteces
    • Satire
      • "we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture"
        • What the irish gov shoul've been doing
      • "lawful occupation of begging"
      • "that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds,and in a solar year, if tolerablt nurse,encreaseth to 28 pounds."
      • "they have already devoured most of the parents"
        • The rich devor the poor
      • "proffessed beggars"
        • as if they chose to be beggars
      • Long rambling in places where not alot is actually said
        • like people who propse economic solutin

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