English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal, Aldous Huxley

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: David Bentley

Document Summary

Characters: mabel (the horse dealer"s daughter, attempt suicide, is saved by the doctor and they fall in love, ferguson (the doctor) Very formal sort of language, textbook-like, makes you feel like a child because it is so repetitive and scolding: colloquial language. More chatty, to prevent and avoid the sense that we are getting berated and taught, colloquial language is used to alleviate that sense. For preventing the children for people of ireland being a burden to their parents or country and for making them bene cial to the public. Preventing two problems at once // poverty and hunger.