Literary Works

  A Modest Proposal

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Why not eat or sell children to rich families to solve this situation?

In the Modest Proposal,  Jonathan Swift  gives a shocking remedy to eradicate poverty in an unthinkable way saying that in order to solve the problem, it is better to kill those children from poor families and sell them as food to the wealthy English landlors. It is a satirical masterpiece and a savage way to comment on England's economic exploitation; it was published in 1729.

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Online book:

https://freeditorial.com/en/books/a-modest-proposal

Video:

A Modest Proposal (summary)

https://youtu.be/MzGf1mdBKSY

Short Film:

https://youtu.be/4yeBWvYBqQc

Gulliver's Travels

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Gulliver’s Travels was publised in 1726 and has been called “the first novels in English” It is on the the best satires in the whole literature. Gulliver’s is that great are had been adapted even for children version.

It is about the adventures of Gulliver. He went to four islands that are Lilliput, tiny people who are cool but change faster his postures just to get what they want; Brobdingnag, good giant people who are not sophisticated enough; Laputians, obssesed scientics inhabitans totally incompetent to hold a conversation and Houyhnhmns, smart horses. In the last one, he refuses to return to his country, but was forced to do it, so he end up living with horses avoing contact with society.

Do you agree with Gulliver conclusion?  

Does not society worth anything?

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Online book:

https://freeditorial.com/en/books/gulliver-s-travels--2

Video:

https://youtu.be/SLE8F1TG7Yc

Tale of a Tub

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A Tale of a Tub was written in 1704. It is basically a prose satire. Only with the title, it is possible to highlight how the author refers to how some sailors look a whale and decide to throw a tub to avoid being attacked by the animal.
That's where the name technically comes from and Swift was referring to the problems that existed in religion and governments.
In short, there was a father who decided to leave a coat for each child he had (Peter, Martin and Jack), and they were told that they could not alter or sew the coats. The Roman Catholic Church was represented by Peter, Martin Luther by Martin, and the Dissidents (by Jack Colvin) by Jack. However, they slowly disobeyed their father, as they arranged their coats according to the fashion that was in each era. After a while they argue among themselves and separate. Peter and Jack fiercely attack each other (referring to the Roman Catholic and dissenters). In fact, said attack left every theology in ruins.
But this work goes beyond what is in the summary because there is really quite a lot of irony about human weaknesses, their follies and problems with both intellectual and religious pride and hypocrisy.

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Online book:

https://freeditorial.com/en/books/the-tale-of-a-tub

 Video:

https://youtu.be/tudSApA5rhM