6 pages. This
paper will serve to show how Jonathan Swift in his A Modest
Proposal and Alexander Pope in his Rape of the Lock treat the
female subjects of their works as an irony of society. It must
be remembered that at the time that both of these pieces were
written that women for the most part carried a less important
role in society than did the male. Women were considered to be
more of a possession than an equal partner; indeed, women were
not allowed to speak with any authority in the topics which men
considered to be of most importance. With this fact in mind, it
is not surprising that women are considered the brunt of jokes
and satire more often than were their male counterparts in both
of these works. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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