... "Candide," by Voltaire are both satires that mock man and society. The messages in these satires are both aimed at the same type of audience, the upper class society. In "A Modest Proposal," Swift writes about a possible solution for Ireland's poverty and over population. His work was aimed towards the English, complaining of their maltreatment. He attacks the English for economical problems of ... Ireland by proposing an elaborate plan to use the gross amount of children as food. He, as narrator makes this proposal in such a tone a reader with very little education may take him serious...

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... bringing attention to its faults. And anytime one thinks of affective satirists who ingeniously employ thoughtful laughter at its best, a few prominent examples come to mind: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Swift's Modest Proposal, and most certainly Voltaire's Candide. In Candide there are endless examples of thought provoking humor, but this paper will concentrate on one character that perhaps best embodies the idea, Pangloss ... one applies the idea that all is precisely like it is meant to be then there is no point in attempting to alter or better any aspect of their world. A proposal, ...

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