A gentle suggestion - A gentle suggestion

Japanese: 《おだやかな提案》 - おだやかなていあん
A gentle suggestion - A gentle suggestion

…In Swift's case, the opposing emotional expressions of laughter and anger are forcibly linked. As seen in his satirical work A Gentle Proposal (1729), which proposed the eating of human babies to solve the food problem, laughter is used to express harsh anger toward politics, which rises to cynical, grotesque, and even demonic laughter. Rabelais, Cervantes, and Swift all constantly used laughter to question ambiguous values ​​such as wisdom and stupidity, sanity and madness, destruction and creation. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Gentle Proposal" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…スウィフトの場合,笑いと怒りという相反した感情表現が強引に結びつけられている。食糧問題を解決するため人間の赤ん坊の食用化を提案した風刺作品《おだやかな提案》(1729)にみるように,笑いという仮装の下に政治に対する手厳しい怒りが語られており,それはシニカルな笑いに,グロテスクな笑いに,悪魔的な笑いにまで高まるものであった。ラブレーもセルバンテスもスウィフトも,たえず笑いを通して賢と愚,正気と狂気,破壊と創造といった両義的な価値を問題にした。…

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