Satire;The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues
The essay take place in a time where poverty as well as England has taken over the land of Ireland. This caused problems due to the want of more by the Irish as well as the ignorance of the British to aid the poor. The essay then offers a solution to the poverty problem. This solution is to eat Irish infants. The Satire in this is that it is an exaggerated and ironic solution to a problem that plagues a nation. The proposal is trying to solve the solution of poverty and famine with cannibalism. In trying to explain and ridicule the British Parliament and its ways of controlling Ireland and making it a wasteland. The essay creates an Ironic feel due to the solution of poverty being selling children to be eaten by the rich. This also solves the British problem of the Christian majority because as children are being eaten the Christian population is dying out, therefore there will eventually not be a Christian majority. This mockery and ridicule within the definition of satire can be most closely acquainted to the feeling within the Irish people as well as those observing the situation. The author mentions an american friend who gives him the idea of eating infants by telling him of a tale where he ate one. This example within the text can be closely related to the definition of satire. The essay shows irony, exaggeration and ridicule within it. It gives a ridiculous solution to a problem that should not have been there in the first place and was induce by the English government, who the author is trying to ridicule in the first place. The author combats a problem that had been plaguing the Irish for centuries, but this problem and his proposed solution fills stereotypes that are apparent today. Those stereotypes can be closely resembles in the attitude of the author and showing that Americans are monsters and that the politicians that control a country do it without major incite into the problem or issue that is needing to be fixed. The essay shows this by explaining the applications and the actual numbers behind his proposal and the fact that he would be and actual part of the process. This shows the viewpoint behind the author and his use of satire towards the governing bodies of the areas in question. The definition of satire includes the use of irony and exaggeration in order to ridicule and supposedly fix a certain topic or issue that needs to be fixed. This essay, one that includes these techniques, assesses that theme.
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