The Modest Proposal - the Epic Satirist

The Epic Satirist

The notorious Jonathan swift…In Gulliver’s travel, swift uses England’s political system and the people that live in Lilliput and Brobdingnag’s political system. Also how there political systems are setup in different and weird ways (pros and Cons).

Jonathan swift pokes at the fact that the Lilliputians or the littlins and the begins are at war over a dispute over opening an egg at the big end or the little end, hints (Biggins and littlins).In the modern day it makes fun of how the united states and maybe even other countries fight over stupid things like their beliefs and what they want to happen and control and also have bragging rights of who’s bigger and better than the other nation.

Jonathan also pokes at how they acrobats which is basically wig parties that support different ideas and cant most of the time ever agree on anything with each other. Just like how many of the nations on earth cant combine or unite because the other nation doesn’t want certain things to happen and one nation wants things to happen there way do the other doesn’t. Also how we have republicans and democrats that can’t stand each other yet they need each in order to carry out bills and laws to make society better than it is today. The fact that they are arguing and they need each other is stupid.

In part 2 he also pokes front of how England elects there representatives and the fact that they are scared of them. The queen had a discussion with Gulliver about how there system works. She hints at the fact that they vote on their representatives and control them while there not elected but when they are elected and the person they elected has power they are now scared of them. Shouldn’t you be able to relieve them of there job and give it to someone else. When it comes to us we elect them and after they are elected we become afraid of them because they now have power over us and we can’t control them they control us and what we do and can have.