During the 1700’s there was much overpopulation, starvation, poverty, and the such in Ireland. Kids were living in the streets begging for food just so they could live another day, everyone was miserable except for the politicians and wealthy. Jonathan Swift proposes a solution to help cure this problem which the law-makers are ignoring. His solution is that we should resort to cannibalism and eat babies. Of course, his solution seems unmoral and shocking to most, but that was his intention. Swift wanted to show everyone the minds of the rich and affluent.
Swift incorporates irony into his whole piece by suggesting somethings as immoral and savage as eating children is modest. Swift explains to the audience he has a “fair, cheap and easy …show more content…
Swift includes statistics such as there being “200,000 couple whose wives are breeders” or fifty thousand “who miscarry”. These statistics bring a sense of logic into this satire, which is meant to be a joke as seen from the absurd proposal for ending poverty. Not only does swift use statistics to make the proposal seem logical he also includes evidence that his proposal might work. Swift provides a previous event where what he has proposed had happened, the event being the selling of a girl who tried to poison the emperor. Including an event which had taken place increases and strengthens the thought that what Swift is proposing may actually work and help people overcome this recession.
Swift tries to tie the wealthy English to people who would eat little children for nutrition. He displays them as immoral beasts who only care about their own gain while others suffer. He tries to use facts and statistics as a way of showing how the wealthy would think of it if they could gain a profit from it, not caring about the consequences and just doing it. He ridicules the rich by writing his opinion as a satire and relating them to immoral savages. The reason Swift calls it a “modest proposal” is because from the wealthy’s point of view if they get what they want its
Swift incorporates irony into his whole piece by suggesting somethings as immoral and savage as eating children is modest. Swift explains to the audience he has a “fair, cheap and easy …show more content…
Swift includes statistics such as there being “200,000 couple whose wives are breeders” or fifty thousand “who miscarry”. These statistics bring a sense of logic into this satire, which is meant to be a joke as seen from the absurd proposal for ending poverty. Not only does swift use statistics to make the proposal seem logical he also includes evidence that his proposal might work. Swift provides a previous event where what he has proposed had happened, the event being the selling of a girl who tried to poison the emperor. Including an event which had taken place increases and strengthens the thought that what Swift is proposing may actually work and help people overcome this recession.
Swift tries to tie the wealthy English to people who would eat little children for nutrition. He displays them as immoral beasts who only care about their own gain while others suffer. He tries to use facts and statistics as a way of showing how the wealthy would think of it if they could gain a profit from it, not caring about the consequences and just doing it. He ridicules the rich by writing his opinion as a satire and relating them to immoral savages. The reason Swift calls it a “modest proposal” is because from the wealthy’s point of view if they get what they want its