Rhetorical Analysis Of Ireland By Jonathan Swift

Swift proposes “he shall take in whole number infants at a certain age who are born of parents in effect as little able to support them as those who demanded our charity in the streets”() Though, who said those parents want to hand over the children to be the communities meat market. Swift also introduces another “great” advantage to his scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, although this is not a logical or rational thought. If the practice of eating children were to happen people who no longer perceive each other the same – one could just consider everyone eating flesh! Also, what Swift doesn’t realize is if selling children for food were to happen, the abortion rate might go down but that might correlate to people having …show more content…
Something the readers should consider is does Swift really care about the public good of Ireland? Swifts argument concludes on the matter there is other ways to prevent child hunger like Swift has stated taxing our absentees, using neither cloaths, nor household furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture, curing the expensiveness of pride, and much more. As for Swift he concludes with many examples to help Ireland from overpopulation. Swift expresses by saying ‘I profess by the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavoring to promote this necessary work, having no motive for the public good of my country, by advancing trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. What Swift is saying is this whole thing is a scheme, he doesn’t really mean any of this because he really doesn’t care for Ireland’s public good.
After reading the entire article the audience should recognize the proposal is satirical, in order to effectively understand this proposal you must have a sense of humor that is the irony of it. While Johnathan’s article is poorly constructed as a whole. He has solely on evocative language, but at times over exploits it to the point of unconvincing bigotry. Swift really wanted to get the attention of his target audience, but what he doesn’t realize after reading the same thing …show more content…
As for the tone is was quite lifeless the whole way through, and I didn’t like how form vindictive writing throughout; although Swift was a man of the sixteen hundred. As a reader the tone made me want to stop reading apart from the image Swift set out for the audience, of buying children and devouring them. His tone is relatively unchanging through his proposal. Despite the legitimacy and the irrationality behind Swift’s viewpoint, the way in which he has conveyed it-as well as whom he has conveyed it to – its fundamentally fruitless and an ineffective influence.
The Modest proposal gives the reader the illusion the article is proper and sane, but the irony of the proposal is it is everything except modest, it is an insane, and heartbreaking towards a sane