The Restoration

The Glorious revolution began in 1688 when King James was overthrown. This is why it is sometimes referred to as the Revolution of 1688. Another name for this time period was the Bloodless Revolution. King James was the last absolute ruler of england. Also in 1689 parliament created the bill of rights, which stated the rights of the people. It stated that the monarch could not act withought consent of the population; as represented by congress. King James II, a catholic, was also removed from the throne. This sealed the fate of roman catholics, and prevented any other from coming to power in england. This was disastrous for catholics and they became the subject of social persecution. They were denied the right to vote for over 100 years.

I think this was important because it introduced the bill of rights to england. This influenced many other constitutional documents. It was very significant in the fact that no roman catholics could hold the throne. This highly influenced the religious make-up of the country. It also influenced religious views, persecution, and prejudice. Not only could the monarch not be roman catholic, he could not marry a roman catholic. You could see how this would lead to roman catholics becoiming public enemy number one.

Satire is when you use wit and comedy to ridicule. Sarcasm is a normal type of satire.

Little Bush is satire, because they pretned to be bush and overagerate his stupidity.
Comedy satire is when people imitate another person and say there so cool or something like that in a sarcastic tone.

I think this work is very intersting. Upon reading it i did not take it as satire, or sarcasm, but i took it as cannibalism. However after being told it's satire, i do see how it could be considered funny and insulting to the population of england. He talks about eating children, and how it would bring culture to england. He says it is the solution to their poverty. I even thought it was interestingly disturbing. Good thing he was just kidding.

Really i think he just used this as a way to talk about the poverty of england. He also talks about the stupidity of england in fact that they would scoop to the level of canibalism, and think it was a good idea. I dont think many people would have bought into this, except for the extremely poor. Even then, giving up a child would be a major sacrifice. 9 months work of work for 10 schilling?

Pepy was rich and bought his wife many luxurious gifts. "and in my passion kicked the little fine basket which i bought her in Holland and broke it, which troubled me after i had done it"

I think that materialism, greed and poverty were strung through england in this time. The thing that i think was the most important to the people of this time was money. There were beggars on the street who had nothing but needed money for food. "These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants". Wealthy people also shared the desire to aquire money. They wanted money to buy luxurious gifts, for their family and themselves.

This materialsm led to a great separation of the wealth classes which is evident in all texts. During this time the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Along with this the rich continued to ridicule the poor. The text entitled "A Modest Proposal" is just that, a proposal in which england could receive more money. Money made the world go around then, as it does now.