What a busy
day working on one research paper for my British Lit. 1600-1700 class. Oh Jonathan Swift, I think that you are
extremely funny with your satire and irony.
I appreciate that at least I have been able to have a good laugh now and
then while working with you. I truly
think that your idea to eat children to save the country needs a bit of
improvement, maybe exchange children for cows, pigs, goats or other edible animals. Getting to know you through my paper caused
me to get very hungry, but I was way too busy to be able to cook. Fortunately for me, there is a short Italian
guy named “Little Caesar” who prepared a special five buck pizza, plus the
cheesy bread. Yum! Swift, I thought that our date today would
end by now, but I have enjoyed bonding with you so much that I decided to spend
the morning with you too.
Jonathan
Swift's Baby Recipes: (A Modest
Proposal)
"I have been assured by a very
knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well
nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food,
whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will
equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." (Swift)
All in all, very snarky, especially
for the seventeenth century! Seriously,
the Irish will be happy to tell you that the point was there was rule by the
English for the benefit of the English, and conditions were very bad in
Ireland. What Swift was on about was
that given the indifference the rulers in England were showing to the welfare
of the Irish, they might just as well eat the children to control population
and provide food. The fact that the
essay has lasted for three hundred years and is still taught in college says
something about the quality of the satire.
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