The Restoration/ The Glorious Revolution

The glorious revolution also called “bloodless revolution” , or revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of king James the second of England by a union of parliamentarians led by William the third, a Dutch stadholder. The bloodless revolution has a background the three major battles in Ireland and the fighting in Scotland. This event is closely tied with the events of, “war of grand alliance” on mainland Europe, which may be seen as the last successful invasion of England. During his three year reign, king James became directly involved in the political battles in England between Catholicism and protesters, this in one side and in the other, the fight between the divine right of the crown and the political rights in 1686 James ordered the removal of Henry Compton, the anti-Catholic bishop off London, and also dismissed the protestants of Magdalene college and replaced them with Catholics. After many years and occurred events James died of a brain hemorrhage on September 16 1701 at the chapel of saint Edmund in the church of English Benedictines in the rue st. Jacques.

The glorious revolution is considered by some as being one of the most important event since it concluded with the passage of the bill of rights, it stamped out one, and for all any possibility of a catholic monarchy, and ended moves toward absolute monarchy in the British kingdoms controlling monarchs powers. Its also important because since 1689, government under a system of constitutional monarchy in England, and later the united kingdom has been unit empted. The parliament’s power has steadily increased while the crowns had declined. This revolution also led to the act of toleration of 1689, which granted toleration to nonconformity Protestants, but not the Catholics.

Satire, this word is often strictly defined as a form to abuse In the ridicule way a body of importance. In most cases satire is meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself, I believe is a attack used as a weapon. A very common feature of satire is its strong irony or sarcasm, amongst these parodies, exaggeration, comparison, analogy and double meaning is also used and considered the form of satire. Today satire can be seen almost everywhere whether in TV shows or books, satire or the act of ridicule’s always there. There are various TV shows that contain satire in exaggeration, some examples would be; “the Simpsons”, “family guy”, “home movies”, and the sitcom “cheers”, all from which satire is reflected that point out the actions, faults, and thoughts of the average middle aged and even older people in our society today.

A “modest proposal”, by Jonathan swift (1729 describes and discusses the thought in real or in exaggerated form of the children around this time. Swifts ideas and thoughts in 1729 reflect the struggle that was taking place at the moment, which was preventing children specially children of the poor from being a burden to parents and the country in reference to the economic situation. Swifts reference to this is portrayed in the writing of “modest proposal” in an exaggerated or satired format, it seems as if the people whom this is directed to, would not value or take in consideration jonathans’ s thoughts. This context of information can be seen in the following from “modest proposal”; “I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at year old and most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled….”. – Jonathan swift. I believe this is a form of satire since it makes fun of what the people think or how the people would think, making at the time explicit exaggeration of what to do with the children that are suffering from the countries and familiar burden, basically saying, to prevent children n from going through hard times why not find another usage and eat them that way we are all happy.

“From a journal of the plague year”; which Defoe published in 1722 is the writing of the bubonic plague that had taken place in London. At the time, the outbreak was blamed upon the French. In early April 1665, two infected French sailors were said to have collapsed and died at the junction of Long Acre in London. These cases were said to have brought about all subsequent infections. This has been largely dismissed as anti rench. The British outbreak is actually thought to have originated from the Netherlands bubonic plague had occurred intermittently since 1599, with the initial contagion arriving with Dutch trading ships carrying bales Of cotton from Amsterdam. The dock areas outside of London, including st. guiles in the fields where workers crowed into dangerous and collapsing structures supposedly where the plague first struck. Some evidence from the book about the plague can be seen: “many persons in this time of this visitation never perceived that they were infected till they found to their unspeakable surprise, the tokens come out upon them; after which them seldom lived six hours, for those spots they called “tokens” were really gangrene spots.”