Johnathan Swift uses satire so cleverly through his essay right from his title. To be modest is to be humble and unassuming of the estimation of one’s abilities. This title opposes the entire work because it is anything but modest. Swift spent most of his life back and forth between England and Ireland, learning about politics and religion. He soon discovered his talent for satire and from there “A Modest Proposal” was born. His essay was …show more content…
Swift wrote this essay to mock the way the English were treating the Irish and to push people to find a solution to their social, political, and economic problems. Swifts proposal is clearly a satire but is persuasive enough that it convinces the reader that it is a true argument. The tools he uses to solidify his argument is logic and imagery. Ireland was starving and flooding with people and no one wanted to do anything about it. Swift suggests that people start selling and eating children to lower the population and to allow women to help make money to support their