In his work, “A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift argues why his solution to Ireland’s poverty problem is the best. He backed up his claim by encourages cannibalism to get rid of weak. He supports this by outlining the opportunity cost of raising a child made for consumption. In addition, he predict that more people will have money from the sales of infants, which will help reduce Ireland’s recession. Jonathan Swift calls attention to the Ireland’s poverty by satire. He does this so that the government would start taking this issue into their own hands. Swift intend his audience to be politicians which he hopes that his message would spread to his critics. The work is significant because Swift uses satire as a way to harbor attention on issue
