"Oh,Sweet Irony" / A comparison/contrast paper about the ironies in Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Susan Glaspell's "Trifles"

Oh, Sweet Irony "A Modest Proposal" (1729) by Jonathan Swift relates one man's facetious point of view on the state of Ireland's impoverished. Swift offers a solution to the problem by suggesting that the overpopulation conundrum can by solved by indulging in the flesh of the nation's underprivileged infants. Susan Glaspell's Trifles (1916) depicts an early twentieth century murder-mystery and the role that two women take in solving the mystery during a time when a woman's and …

…y women are thought of in America, just as Jonathan Swift was not the only factor in bringing about change toward the treatment of Ireland's lower-class. However, these two authors are quite successful in their use of a literary tool known as irony; carefully crafted within the confines of "A Modest Proposal" and Trifles, irony serves to invoke strong emotions within the reader--emotions which implore the mind to bring about change to an ever-corrupting world.