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Moliere was criticizing hypocrisy with Tartuffe and Swift was challenging the English rule with A Modest Proposal. Originally for the play Moliere had Tartuffe dressed as a priest, directly attacking religious hypocrisy and its blind followers. Orgon and his mother loved Tartuffe and believed everything he said symbolizing religious followers. Everybody else in the play, however; symbolized nonreligious citizens that realized how hypocritical he was. When Tartuffe thought he was alone he did things that would make Orgon and his mother not like him. That is a big insult to the Catholic Church and its constant controversies about priest's behaviors and money. I believe that Moliere was trying to encourage the separation of the Church from the government and get the Church to be more honest. He also wanted society to stop blindly following priests by showing in this play that people aren't always who they say they are.

Swift already had a bad record with the English higher ups and A Modest Proposal just about offended everybody who was not already. Swift's absurd idea of killing, cooking, and selling children was a direct challenge to the government in regards to the famine in Ireland. Swift wanted the government to do something about the famine and overpopulation or at least try something. They were ignoring the Irish people and not valuing their lives as he clearly states in his proposal, by reproducing just for economy stimulation. By the way English rule was ignoring the famine, I think they might have seen this as a real "modest" proposal!

Satire today is so widespread that it cannot affect the government as much as it did then. A person can open the internet and find an article criticizing virtually anything. Satire is really used now more for political entertainment. Who doesn't love reading a good article on The Onion?