Modest Proposal Literature Is a Essay

Just as in Swift, we find in Cervantes social criticism, irony and sarcasm as well as the satirical method and exaggeration and allusion as methods. Humor was also used centuries earlier in Don Quixote as well. Cervantes is as gifted and accomplished of a satirist as Swift. For instance, Cervantes humorously has Don Quixote jousting windmills who are giants that he is preparing to deprive of life. This is an example of social criticism of those who go off on crazy crusades for no good reason. Cervantes' Don Quixote is has been considered the first modern novel and one of the most important modernist devices available in the novel is the exploration of the characters' inner worlds using satire and humor, especially of Don Quixote. The fact that he is so in the imaginary world of chivalry is that he ironically thinks that Dulcinea actually cares about him. Through these inner exploration of the main character, the readers observe that the real and the illusionary are interoperable within Don Quixote's perceptions of the outside world.In that sense, a post-modern concept which suggests that truth is multifaceted and it's a creation of mind emerges in a rampage of sarcasm as Don Quixote's fantasies become real to him. This is exaggeration. Further, Cervantes methodology alludes to all of us who can become deluded by our own fantasies.

The can also be seen in Candide when it says that the Baroness weighed in at about three hundred and fifty pounds, causing her to be greatly respected as well as to bringing more dignity and honors to the house. Obviously, a person who is obese will not have great respect and honor. Finally in the Rape of the Lock. Even Pope indicates his comic intentions in his first couplet when he indicates that dire offense can come from the smallest issue such as a lock of hair......