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DANIEL POST

Satire is all about writing to induce change. In today's world satire is almost not needed because you can pretty much write whatever you want in America, and even include all the profanity you want. In America you can even write about all the Literotica you want. This means that basically anything goes in modern day books. However, there are quite a few modern day satire books, magazines, and articles. One such famous satire piece is the "Thick of it." (Peter & Rob, 2008) In this show it dramatizes the laziness of the British government and capitalizes on the thoughts and suspicions of what really goes on behind closed doors in the British government.

Satire therefore is all suspicion, generally funny, twisted, and points out obvious flaws and misdoings. It is not just for entertainment, but to point out that something needs to be done about the situation, and that action is needed to fix the situation. This means that the British people would like more done by the government, and that maybe the government should show some dramatic change to reflect that they are actually working and not just pretending to be. Will it work? Not all the time, but many works of satire are able to compel people to change, and much of this has to do with being able to see things at many different angles, and to tug on the heart strings of many to induce change.

Swift was a British man and much of his works were dedicated to criticizing the higher ups and powerheads of the British government. As you can see from modern day satire, this has been going on now for hundreds of years, so I don't think he was able to change too much. Swift, on the other hand would be so good at his satire that the audience could directly depict who he was criticizing. This got him into a lot of trouble, but none of his trouble is researchable. However, the two author's points are that society is evil, harsh, cruel, and so is the government. They wanted more change, more peace, and more freedom, less control from the government, and a better world to live in.

Swift spent a great time amount of time trying to fight against children being treated as a piece of property. Literally the children used to be pieces of property and traded regularly. In the modern day world, NIKE Shoe Company and many other company's still use child labor. However, unlike in Swift's times, the children used to not be paid at all, bought, traded, and were equal to live stock and cattle. Swift would write some of his satire about that and point out how ridiculous it is to take somebody made in the image of god, and to treat them like cattle and livestock. Many poor people were treated in a similar fashion.