People And Politics Short Flashcards
Paragraph 1 - BNW
Ideas
Political control is scary. Convince audience to fight for Liberty. Happiness cannot exist in a world without the freedom to suffer.
Techniques - creates satire with:
Sarcasm and irony - Mond: “being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle without temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt” conveys no happiness without suffering/freedom
Motto - “no leisure from pleasure” created unease through disassociating two things commonly seen as similar or one. Irony
Paragraph 2 - A Modest Proposal
Ideas
Shock audience with show of society where no one has freedom/ political voice
Techniques - satire with:
Parody of wealthy Irish landowner
“As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years, upon this important subject, and maturely weighed several schemes from our projectors” - created business like tone with professional language
Uses previous tone to convey absurdity of having incredible power over populace - “A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends” and “no other notice besides the good of my country” - high modality and exclusive language to create horrible things that can be done if some don’t have political voice
Integrated paragraph 3
Ideas
Shock and alienate audiences. Loss of individuality and humanity
Huxley
John is articulate and passionate, relatable foil for world state - “Oh, my God, my God!” Is succumbing to homogeneity and symbolises death of individuality to shock audience through plea to higher power. No Liberty = no individuality
Swift
Zoomorphism and symbolism - “rather recommends buying the children alive, and dressing them hot with a knife, as we do roasting pigs.” Children as symbol for those without rights or voice (Irish). Shows injustice that can be wrought as they are treated like animals and butchered. Stresses everyone must have a say in politics/society.
How Huxley alienates
With Pavlovian style conditioning and eugenics. Particularly for bourgeois audience of time playing on common fears of soviet communism and Fordist American capitalism
