specific quotes

Question 1

a modest proposal

Answer 1

‘these mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood are instead forced to employ all their time stroling to beg sustenance.’
- use of passive voice, no active role in the situation, the force is being done to them
- quantifier ‘all’ extent of injustice, it is spread across all of ireland
-contrasting active verbs ‘work’ and ‘beg’ right vs reality
‘that horrid practise of women murdering their bastard children’
- ironic premodifier ‘horrid’ predates the ideas about to be presented
- reversal, later proposes to eat new born children
these two quotes highlight the transition from sympathy for women to detest for women.

Question 2

joseph speech

Answer 2

‘the old men are all dead. it is the young men who now say yes or no.’
parallelism between generations
- monosyllabic simple instructions, no time to plan or dwell, no anger just a surrender and statement of the damage that has been done