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More Restor- ation History Gulliver’s Travels A Modest Proposal 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Satire Restoration History 30 Points
The state of England in 1660: A. exhausted B. vigorous C. wealthy
exhausted
One of the names given to the Restoration because it resembled the period of peace and order in ancient Rome – this name was also a Roman emperor’s name.
Augustan Age
The name of the king resembling Augustus (hailed as the second founder of Rome) who was brought back from exile and restored the monarchy.
Charles II
Another name for the Restoration – this one emphasizing that English writers modeled their works on the old Latin classics.
Neoclassical Age
The Restoration is also called “The Age of Reason” – or “The____________”
Enlightenment
Prior to the Age of Reason, most people were s___________about events like earthquakes.
superstitious
People didn’t ask “How did this unusual event take place?” Instead, they asked “_____ and what does it _____?”
“Why? And What does it mean?”
During the Enlightenment, people stopped asking “Why?” and started asking “_____?”
“How?”
A new religious view emerged - buoyed by the belief in the power of man’s reason - that challenged the supernatural view of God’s involvement in human affairs. This view held that God withdrew from human affairs. It was called what?
Deism
By the mid- eighteenth century, people were writing long fictional narratives called_______.
novels
He wrote Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal.
Jonathan Swift
Like all satirists, Swift used satire to make us laugh at human____ies and weaknesses.
follies
Satire is designed to make its readers feel _______ – of themselves or others.
critical
Some satires are intended to make us ______ and __________ at human behavior.
angry, indignant
What is meant by a “human vice”?
An immoral or illegal practice, like gambling or smoking.
Three funny parts in Gulliver’s Travels, Pt.1
1)Rope dancing 2)Tramecksans and Slamecksans 3)War between Lilliput and Blefuscu over eggs
What did doing a good dance on a tightrope merit the dancer?
An official position.
What is the wordplay Swift uses in the name of the main character Gulliver?
“Gulliver” sounds like “gullible”
What kinds of books in Swift’s time – famous for containing fantastic lies about exotic places – does Swift parody?
Travel books
The smallness of the Lilliputians suggests what quality of theirs?
Their pettiness
What problem in Ireland during the 1720s does Swift satirize in A Modest Proposal?
The practice of English landlords evicting Irish tenant farmers unable to pay rent due to a famine. Their evictions resulted in widespread poverty and begging.
Swift’s purpose of A Modest Proposal was to draw attention to the predicament and _______ the English landlords.
reform
What was the “modest proposal” Swift gave?
Selling and “breeding” the Irish children for food to pay the Irish debt!
What does Swift claim as his purpose in writing this essay?
To discover a fair, cheap, and easy method for turning the street urchins into productive members of society.
What two effects does Swift’s outrageous proposal have on readers?
It makes them aware of the problem and encourages them to act; the proposal is unforgettable.
What is the wordplay in the following sentence from AMP: “I grant this food will be somewhat dear (expensive), and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.”
The word devoured refers to eating as well as the idea that the rich have already consumed the resources of the parents.
Make your wager
Considering that A Modest Proposal was written more than two centuries ago, what are some details that relate to contemporary social issues?
Hunger, homelessness, poverty, man’s inhumanity to man seen in the Holocaust.