Gulliver's Travel and Modest Proposal

We were recently assigned to read Gulliver's Travel for an online english class.When reading about the land of the Houyhnhnms the first thought that entered my mind
was, wow, what a great place to live! No lying, cheating,or war. A land of respect and
admirable living, but then I thought how boring! Often, we as humans, strive for that
picture perfect society. What we don't realize is that sometimes the hardships that we go
through makes us stronger individuals. We grow in character due to harsh situations like
war, lying, cheating,etc..However, the yahoos are certainly not a society that I would
want to be involved in. I saw the yahoo's much like our society that we live in today. I
really enjoyed the way swift makes you think about the different diversities. He makes
you understand that everyone lives in there own world, whether or not you choose to
participate in different society's is your choice! Then we were assigned to read "A Modest Proposal", and again Swift's quick use of satire threw me for a loop and was really disturbing. From the very beginning he catches your attention by letting you visualize starving women and children. He quickly points out the problem of poverty in Ireland! Then he drastically makes his proposal and suggest that the solution would be to buy and sell children's bodies. Swift constantly points out the advantages to his proposal and calls out to the members of authority to do something about this problem. He also challenges them to come up with their own solution to the problem, admitting that he has no children that he can get a single penny out of and his
wife is past her days of childbearing. If I were the British I would have got mad and
upset by the way he was suggesting the British treated the Irish. Swift certainly makes a
point, but at the same time I believe you must be careful when using satire. There is a
fine line you must walk and if you cross that line the problem could blow up even worse
than it already was!!