A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift 1729
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- A Reading of Dr. Jonathan Swift's 1729 "A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country and for making them beneficial to the publick." Read by Matthew Swab.
A modest proposal is one of the most famous satires in the English Language and the Public Domain.
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I read this because it amused me and because it makes a good sample of voice work. Not to mention fun. Delicious baby eating fun.
Would you like some Art with that?
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#funny #blackcomedy #satire
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😨😰 poor children!
mmmm satire
I can't tell if people can't tell this is satire.
Historically a lot of people thought it was completely serious, which is part of why I read it like this. While it was not the first black humour satire, back then that genre was still very uncommon and I heard that it sparked more outrage than the treatment of Ireland's poor.
When it was originally Published I wonder how many got to the end "I desire those politicians who dislike my
overture, and may perhaps be so bold as to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the
parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to
have been sold for food, at a year old in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided
such a perpetual scene of misfortunes as they have since gone through by the oppression
of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common
sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the
weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like or greater miseries upon
their breed for ever." Which basically was a "why don't politicians do something about the babies starving to death."
No, Mr. Biden! This is Satire, even if you heard me read it with too much enthusiasm as a joke, It shouldn't be your solution to global warming!
What the actual hell is wrong with this story
Ikr! You listening to this for school to?
Soooooooo eating babies?