I would like to focus my work on Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Alexander Pope's " The Rape of the Lock ". I chose those two works especially because they are both satirical, critisizing the contemporary society in England in the eighteenth century. To begin with, I would like to give a few details on the life of Jonathan Swift. Jonathan Swift ( 1667 - 1745 ), who is supposed to be one of the greatest ironist in English literature, …
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…e same things. I also think that Swift's work has much stronger impact on the reader because he critisizes wealthy people by writing about the real conditions of the poor , which were unbearable. Pope describes rich people with all their vanities, closed in their beautiful houses, the most adventurous thing they do is playing cards, but there is nothing to contrast this view, so that you may really start taking the incident with hair seriously.