He sarcastically proposes that the children aged one year should be eaten in order to reduce hunger in Ireland. He does not literally intend that the solution to overpopulation and poverty in Ireland is to eat babies, he desires his audience to see that a practical solution is required. He paints the governing bodies of his time as greedy capitalists, stating that the decrease in the meat consumed by Ireland would lead to an advantage of "the addition of some thousand carcasses in our exportation of barreled beef" (Swift Modest 54). The purpose of this essay is to reform the governmental and social attitudes and practices towards the impoverished. As exemplified by Swift and Twain, sarcasm is common tool in satire directed at the political follies one's own nation. It is also employed by Bierce to stigmatize the practices of other countries. He defines revolution as: "an abrupt change in the form of.
misgovernment Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are.
usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it -- this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable.
value to the Socialist of to-day; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order. ".
Bierce, an Englishman, is blatantly caustic and jeering of both the American and Russian revolutions, as well as each nations administrative practices. He, too, belittles political beliefs that are not consistent with his own and serves to persuade his audience against the fallacies of great revolutions. Authors of political satire use sarcasm to ridicule practices that they see as incorrect, prompting the reader to be dissuaded towards the ideology of the author.
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