Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” offers a very interesting proposal to the problems that
Ireland was having with poverty and overpopulation. He offers several unrealistic and crazy solution that basically puts poor children into harsh treatment, child labor and offering them as a form of meat for the wealthy people to eat. Swift effectively uses insincerity, sarcasm, and rhetorical exaggeration to reveal his annoyance on how nobody is doing nothing about poverty and overpopulation in Ireland. Swifts main purpose of “A Modest Proposal” was to get the attention of everybody in Ireland that they have a big issue about poverty and over population. The way he wrote the essay made it seem as if he intended to offer a solution but instead it
Ireland was having with poverty and overpopulation. He offers several unrealistic and crazy solution that basically puts poor children into harsh treatment, child labor and offering them as a form of meat for the wealthy people to eat. Swift effectively uses insincerity, sarcasm, and rhetorical exaggeration to reveal his annoyance on how nobody is doing nothing about poverty and overpopulation in Ireland. Swifts main purpose of “A Modest Proposal” was to get the attention of everybody in Ireland that they have a big issue about poverty and over population. The way he wrote the essay made it seem as if he intended to offer a solution but instead it