Today we are working on two of Jonathan Swift's most famous works, Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal. Although the former has come to be recognized as a children's story through television and movie adaptations depicting visits among giants and other fantastical encounters, make no mistake that it is social commentary and satire of the most biting and funny sort. Check out Book IV, wherein Swift challenges his society to see the case of the civil Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos whom they enslave, as analogous to the economic exploitation of the Irish by the British.