Connecting The Tempest, Of Cannibals, Eating Gifted Children, and Modest Proposal :: Tempest essays

Connection Between The Tempest, Of Cannibals, eat Gifted Children, and  Modest Proposal   thither be several, in-depth connections presented in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Of Cannibals by Michel de Montaigne, How to Raise Your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children by Lewis Frumkes, and A Modest Proposal by Jonathan lively. While all these stories induce civilization and the uncivilized coming into linkup with one a nonher, by chance for the first time, they also feature a deeper connection. They feature a connection to each other that strikes to the very heart and bodily structure of our civilizations today-just as it did when these works were written. That connection is the idea that the noble savage (if in that respect is such a thing) is appalled at what we call civilization because of how unjust, uncaring, and ruthless we are to one another. The works point out how the savage perhaps is just the innocent and we are the ones who ought to be called savages-not because of what our glossiness does, but what it does not do.   We do not care for one another in todays society. The culture weve built ourselves is one where each man strives for his own good. Each soul cares and looks out for Number One. In the end, as stated by the savages in Montaignes essay, rich people can live in luxury on the same street where poverty takes lives. In todays society of computerized and/or second everything, we look about at the social troubles that plague us and assay solutions similar to those we implement for mechanical problems. People who write laws do not care for the people they govern from the heart, but rather from the wallet. We implement measures that are quick fixes. They fix the immediate problem at hand or in the publics eye because thats what will get the politician re-elected. The very structure of our social care system is a laughable joke.   As Lewis Frumkes and Jonathan Swift point out in their respective satires, How to Raise Y our I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children and A Modest Proposal, this society is one which looks for quickie solutions to every surface problem without actually looking into the causes. What Frumkes and Swift put up are not so far off from the grossness which we ourselves would protrude to deal with our social-economic problems. Do we not practice the eating of children for our individual watch in all but the literal sense?