Swift Response

 Response to Swift

The problem that Swift identifies in his society is that the children of poor people in Ireland are being a burden on their parents and country. Swift made a modest proposal on how to make the children of Ireland be beneficial to the public. Swift talked about how along the streets of Ireland there were female beggars and took their multiple children with them to beg. Swift also believed that these children who either grew up as thieves for work, leave the country to fight for Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. One suggestion that Swift made which I did not think was serious was when he stated that he believed a child who was just a little older than a one-year old should “contribute to the feeding, and partly to the cloathing of many thousands.” This part confused me and made me think “really” a one-year old? I do not think this is serious but rather this particular idea is indeed a little crazy, how can a one-year old work and do a job that only a grown adult can do?

Swift also spoke how his scheme would prevent voluntary abortions and the horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children; this is what I think Swift was making fun of. During a certain paragraph Swift was comparing the children that were being born to sheep, black cattle, and swine, and that one male will be sufficient to serve four females. Swift was writing like the infants and children were like animals and he kept talking about the child’s flesh like they were animals to be sold on a market. Swift purposed a plan where for each child the woman had she would get money and be fit for work until she produced another child, in my opinion; I believe that this purpose is sort of like welfare in our society.

When it comes to Swift’s evidence he had six suggestions that he wanted to do that would make his solution logical. He believed that if people followed his solution then there would be a lessen number of Papists, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own and money a thing unknown. The maintenance of an hundred thousand children, the constant breeders would be rid of maintaining their children after the first year; the food production would bring great customs and lastly, would be a great inducement to marriage. Here is a link that talks more about Swift and his life: http://www.incompetech.com/authors/swift/ 
 

Eng:102 Rhetorical Analysis

 Rhetorical Analysis

The video that I decided to use was from this year’s Super Bowl, it is the Budweiser Ad titled, “The Clydesdales: Brotherhood.” I think ad is very effective because after watching it both my mother and I went “awe”. It was cute and it targeted towards the audience of woman viewers but just because it was targeted towards women in my opinion, many men enjoyed the commercial as well. The advertisement was also to show you the bound between the man and the horse since in the commercial the man seemed to have no family and would constantly be with the horse.  The commercial had a lot of product placement in it since the Clydesdales horses are the one that pull the Budweiser and is the beers symbol in a sense. The idea of the horse ditching his uniform before running over to see his old friend is very adorable. The product-placement of this scene was lessened by a few seconds but it still had a powerful impact. 

Essay #1 Ideas

Essay #1

For my Essay I am going to use the second thesis about how Bartleby’s ghostly presence in the story is a result of how the narrator’s mind is breaking down. In truth Bartleby does not really exist and is not an actual scrivener. Bartleby thought is a representation of the how the narrator wishes to repress in order to become a more effective worker. 

I will talk about how the ghostly presence of Bartleby has begun to affect the narrator in a negative way and is slowly eating away at his mental state. In fact Bartleby does not really exist but instead the scrivener is actually an illusion of how the narrator wishes to be a better worker in his workplace which led his mind to create a false apparition. 

 In the Essay I will speak about how the mental state of the narrator is at the beginning of the story and how it changed at the end of the story. Along with this, how the narrator seems to have a breakdown because he is trying to become someone he is not and creates a false ghostly presence in order to keep him going to become his ideal self.

English 102: Close Reading of Bartleby

 Bartleby: Analysis of a Paragraph

“Good-bye, Bartleby; I am going—good-bye, and God some way bless you; and take that,” slipping something in his hand. But it dropped upon the floor, and then,—strange to say—I tore myself from him whom I had so longed to be rid of.” (Page 177)

I believe that this was a very important paragraph since the narrator was finally telling Bartleby good-bye and he was not going to deal with him anymore. The narrator has decided that since Bartleby will not leave him or quit him that the narrator must be the one as to quit Bartleby. The narrator decides to rid himself completely of Bartleby, by changing his office, moving somewhere else and if he finds Bartleby at his new places then he will go against Bartleby as if he was a trespasser. 

Another important part of this text was how the narrator slipped something into Bartleby’s hand but it just dropped to the floor. This could have many meanings as to if Bartleby is a ghost or simply a part of the narrator’s mind that has manifested due to his insanity. Bartleby could also be a figure that haunts the narrators mind and is a being or an image of how the narrator wishes himself to be. 

But further down the storyline a lawyer appears at the narrator’s new place and tells him that there is a man at his old place that refuses to do anything and that he prefers not to. That narrator wanted to call the place and see how Bartleby was doing but instead he did not though a few weeks later the landlord and a few tenants go to visit the narrator since Bartleby is now “haunting the building generally” according to the landlord. 

 Here is a link to a video of the movie version of the tale of Bartleby and he would prefer not to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-9tAqdd_4Y