... about social reform, thus undermining their opponents beliefs by showing the opposing views as absurd, vicious, or inhumane. Jonathan Swift's " A Modest Proposal" and Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" are examples of satires written with literary irony and parody. "A Modest Proposal" is an outrageous proposal to solve the extreme famine and ... to the social unrest of the Irish nation. Another example of a satire in a completely different light is Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote". The objective of "A Modest Proposal" was to exploit the English's wrong doing and invoke sympathy for the...

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