Comparison Essay
Choose two texts which do not portray food as a source of nourishment or comfort and compare them.
A Modest Proposal is a political speech by Jonathan Swift which presents a solution to the problem of the hunger in Ireland in the 18th Century, published in 1729. It is a satirical essay about how the religious divide between the Protestants and the Catholics caused the Catholics to be declined the right to vote in 1627 which meant they couldn’t go against the Protestant rules, they were forbidden from practicing law or buying property and eventually, the Protestants inflicted starvation upon them. The speech Swift makes is an ironically conceived attempt to “find out a fair, cheap and easy method” for converting the starving children of Ireland into “sound and useful members of the Commonwealth”. It is a hugely ironic and sarcastic speech which is over-exaggerated; its purpose is to shock the audience and to prove a point. It draws attention to the self-degradation of the nation by illustrating it in shockingly literal ways. To put it simply, Swift suggests the solution to children of poor people being a burden to their parents and country is to sell them to the rich as food and to use their skin to make gloves/boots. Its purpose is to entertain and argue a point; it is completely rhetorical and is social commentary. Its audience is poor/rich people in the 18th century and the government/politicians.
Titus Andronicus is a Shakespearean tragedy which dates from 1590. It is all about the Queen of the Goths, Tamora, and renowned Roman general, Titus. The play is extremely complicated as it follows the circle of revenge between Titus and Tamora. Act V Scene II and III is the ending of the play, where Titus is seeking revenge on Tamora and her two sons, Chiron and Demetrius. Tamora told her two sons to mutilate and rape Titus’ daughter Lavinia. After discovering this, Titus goes to extremes by killing her two sons, baking them into a pie and feeding it to Tamora for
A Modest Proposal is a political speech by Jonathan Swift which presents a solution to the problem of the hunger in Ireland in the 18th Century, published in 1729. It is a satirical essay about how the religious divide between the Protestants and the Catholics caused the Catholics to be declined the right to vote in 1627 which meant they couldn’t go against the Protestant rules, they were forbidden from practicing law or buying property and eventually, the Protestants inflicted starvation upon them. The speech Swift makes is an ironically conceived attempt to “find out a fair, cheap and easy method” for converting the starving children of Ireland into “sound and useful members of the Commonwealth”. It is a hugely ironic and sarcastic speech which is over-exaggerated; its purpose is to shock the audience and to prove a point. It draws attention to the self-degradation of the nation by illustrating it in shockingly literal ways. To put it simply, Swift suggests the solution to children of poor people being a burden to their parents and country is to sell them to the rich as food and to use their skin to make gloves/boots. Its purpose is to entertain and argue a point; it is completely rhetorical and is social commentary. Its audience is poor/rich people in the 18th century and the government/politicians.
Titus Andronicus is a Shakespearean tragedy which dates from 1590. It is all about the Queen of the Goths, Tamora, and renowned Roman general, Titus. The play is extremely complicated as it follows the circle of revenge between Titus and Tamora. Act V Scene II and III is the ending of the play, where Titus is seeking revenge on Tamora and her two sons, Chiron and Demetrius. Tamora told her two sons to mutilate and rape Titus’ daughter Lavinia. After discovering this, Titus goes to extremes by killing her two sons, baking them into a pie and feeding it to Tamora for