ENG305H1 Lecture Notes - Ragout, Fricassee, Black Comedy
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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. Irish natives don"t read english, so not readers of this peasants, catholics and had land confiscated by english settlers. English settlers swift"s readers, directing modest proposal anglo-irish, Protestants, don"t care for native irish and don"t want to be confused with them but consider selves irish because lived there for so long exploit peasants, land not cultivated, landlords spending money on english goods. Irish government colonial legislature, enacting punitive economic bills forbid irish to export to english disastrous market. Reducing people to materialistic commodities abortions seen as financial choice rather than moral, women as breeders vs babies as dropped like from dam statistical population. Belief that poor are poor because it"s their fault in the day swift"s realistic and un-ironic description of poor condition.
