In the late 1720s, many of the Irish people lived in poverty. Many of them, children included, starved to death on a regular basis. Johnathan Swift noticed that nobody wanted to do anything about it so, he decided he would create a proposal to make people really think about and realize how bad the problems in Ireland were. Swift's ridiculous proposal suggested that the Irish eat their own children, of course he didn't really mean it, he was using that as a way to show the irony in the fact that the English are making money off the Irish and nobody is helping them.
To begin with, Swift's real views on how to relieve poverty are mostly economical. He thinks that the Irish should stop spending money on things they don't need, like lavish furniture
To begin with, Swift's real views on how to relieve poverty are mostly economical. He thinks that the Irish should stop spending money on things they don't need, like lavish furniture