Critical Analysis Of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

“A Modest Proposal” written by Jonathan Swift. Swift has had enough of what he was seeing and everyone blind as if they are not seeing these people struggling. However, Swift came up with an idea for the poor to sell their babies at year old to the rich and they can go ahead eat them. Therefore, Swift had to bring the rich back to reality and come up with a proposal to do so and let them know that you guys are treating them worse then what I’m about to say. Swift knows that if he doesn’t talk about no one will and they keep just ignoring it. Therefore, Swift says “As to my own part, having turned my thoughts for many years upon this important subject, and maturely weighed the several schemes of other subjects.”(315) What Swift is basically saying is this isn’t a joke no more you can’t stay blind to it anymore and we have to do something about it, and that his fellow people should put up all there other plans and make this there priority. However Swift knows that is not enough so he comes up with a proposal where the mother takes care of the child until it turns a year old. And he states, “There is likewise another advantage in …show more content…
By first solving the main issue is when the poor family starts to get money by selling their babies they would be able to afford to pay their landlords without a problem. Also, by that happening there obviously going to spend money for food, and etc. So it will all go back into the market so now stocks will go back up. And for the rich everyone knows they love to save as much money so they will not have to that much for food. Second thing that will be solved is that men will stop beating on their women because now they will try to get pregnant every year and they wouldn’t want their wife to have a miscarriage because the baby is money now. Also, another plus is that this is all year around is not like they are working outside where it could be too cold or too