Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn‚ the Irish Member‚ is a literary work dedicated to exposing the problems with the political system of 19th century Great Britain by presenting a comprehensive allegory. Phineas Finn takes place over a young man’s six years in Parliament. Eventually he acquires the wisdom and courage to act on his convictions after being subservient to his political patrons and their wishes in order to maintain his seat. Over the course of this book Trollope is able to make the point
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Seamus Heaney Research The recently deceased Seamus Heaney (1939 - 2013)‚ was an Irish poet who explored a wide range of themes in his poetry‚ covering subjects such as Iron age bog bodies‚ modern day religious and social conflict‚ Ancient Irish history‚ and autobiographical work with his trademark imagery and symbolism. Heaney was highly critically acclaimed as a poet‚ and received numerous awards during his lifetime‚ most notably of which was the 1995 Nobel prize in literature for “works of
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intended audience. "A Modest Proposal" begins with a description of the state of 18th century Irish life. Ireland was a place where children too often became beggars or thieves to sustain themselves or their families‚ women had abortions because they could not afford to raise children‚ few jobs were available to the workforce‚ and landlords abused poor tenants. In “A Modest Proposal”‚ Swift proposes we
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includes‚ “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents‚ or the Country‚ and for Making them Beneficial to the Public” (Swift 558). His essay‚ very skillfully‚ brings shame to and sheds light upon the impoverishment of the Irish people at the hands of England’s greed for profits. He employed satire and irony as an effective tool to make the reader understand the state of oppression of the Irish using the most extreme statements. In his writing‚ although
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poverty and overpopulation in the 1700’s. He gives a series of unrealistic and simply absurd solutions to the problem that include the harsh treatment of children. The complete title of the work is "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents‚ or the Country‚ and for Making them Beneficial to the Public." This can kind of give you an idea on the bizarre insights that the author is going to give. His all around solution is to “fatten up” the undernourished
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abuse inflicted on Irish catholic children by well to do English protestants. Swifts native heritage of Ireland put him in an excellent position as an observer and‚ eventually‚ a commentator‚ on the extreme poverty experienced by the Irish population. This poverty mostly caused by the ‘ruling class’ … the English…and their appalling mistreatment of Ireland‚ its people and its land. In A Modest Proposal‚ Swift satirizes the English landlords with outrageous humour‚ proposing that Irish infants be sold
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The 1700s were a definitive historical period for the Irish‚ culturally‚ economically‚ and inter-relationally with the English. Just as noble English landowners ascended to prominence‚ the Irish were beset with insolvency and poverty. Yet this massive disparity in Irish and English power stemmed from a troubling set of circumstances. This dualistic era was predated by social havoc‚ excessive penal oppression‚ and military suppression of the Irish. Thus‚ the English who resided in Ireland were allocated
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Learner Journal 4: Famine: The Irish experience 900- 1900. What is the reading about? This week’s reading is a chapter is taken from the book ‘Famine: The Irish Experience 900 -1900’. The chapter is titled ‘Conclusion: Famine and Irish History. The author highlights the state the country was in before famine. Clarkson adds that all Famines in Ireland was a result of hundreds of years of starvation. In this text the author aims to explain the due course up to the Great Famine. The author also aims
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way that people were calculated as numbers relates to the situation of how slaves were numbered in the real world such as: “slaving company‚ slave ship and slave plantation. Critics say that the amount of satire does not come from fiction‚ but from the roots of mental attitudes of a slaving society. A comparison was made between the Ireland and Africans due to the irony that the useless bodies were being sold (literature
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the starving people of Ireland in the early 1700′s. The purpose of his argument is to raise awareness to the wealthy of the issue. Swift‚ a priest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral composed the satirical essay due to his want for a resolution for the underprivileged people in Ireland. Swift wants to bring the issue to light for the wealthy Irish class. Swift assumes that his audience will be upset and bothered by his suggestion to sell and eat poor children. Swift also assumes that people genuinely
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