In Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” the author exemplifies and focuses on the problem during this time period of the Irish dealing with overpopulation, famine, and extensive poverty. While also attacking Britain on its lack of empathy towards the situation, as well as the unwillingness to create a plausible solution to fix these problems. Swift achieves his position to condemn the British government for not helping the Irish , through the creation of a outlandish, monstrous solution by use of satire and structuring the writing in such a way that the reader is caught off guard by Swift’s proposal and then pushed toward negative views of England for not substituting any better solutions.
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