"A MODEST PROPOSAL" AND "ADVICE TO YOUTH" Sa

Satire, for the most part, is a form of literature designed to prick the pompous balloons of the status quo, to poke fun (whether in a caustic or light-hearted way) at what is a somewhat serious subject. Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain can both be considered satirists, although they lived more than a century and a half apart. In the case of the two works here, Swift's is the more important, in terms of social problems. There was a very serious problem of unemployment, immigration, and large families unable to be supported by their bread winners. The wealthy and pompous in England saw these large families as nuisances, rather than people in need. Swift even tweaks the "over-breeding" of the poor: "àof the hundred and twenty thousand child

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Approximate Word count = 529
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page)