Today's Date:
December 16, 2024
Irony and Social Critique in “A Modest Proposal”and Candide
As seen through both “A Modest Proposal” and “Candide”, both Jonathan Swift and Voltaire were committed to exposing the problems inherent to their societies, but instead of making bold proclamations about these issues, they wrote entertaining texts that used irony, →
A Realistic Utopia in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swifts
Aside from the more overt satire on English society, much of “Gulliver’s Travels” is devoted to exploring potential utopias. Although there are obvious examples of utopias in the text, most notably represented by the Houyhnhnms, many do not seem realistically →
