Eat the food for the children! Go on, Eat the Children! The children... Oh the poor children... Desperation is a feeling that usually leads, at times, to the change of one’s mindset into the darkest places. For Dr. Jonathan Swift and his thought process influenced by the desperation of the poor in Ireland, it led to him coming up with the plan of cannibalism and further outrageous methods and not just any plan but in plain words “to eat the children”. He creates a satire essay called “The Modest Proposal “to criticize the economic state of Ireland and how the English government takes care of those in poverty or more how they don’t. He uses satire to explain different methods of taking care of the Irish people. He uses the rhetorical tools of pathos, irony, and sarcasm to criticize the poor economic state of Ireland and the people at fault.
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According to the text “.the roads and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importing every passenger for an alms.” (Paragraph 1, Pg 771 ) Swift gives a description on what is seen in the streets of Ireland, which are beggars and plenty of children who are suffering from poverty and lack of resources. What makes this ironic is that he later offers a plan of selling the children to the wealthy to do what they like and to eat them and that emphasizes how ridiculously bad the economic situation is in Ireland. It is also stated in the text “ "For we can neither build houses ( I mean in the country) nor cultivate land; they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing, till they arrive at six years old"( Page 772,paragraph 6). The irony that can be taken out of this is that Swift is talking about how six year old children aren’t useful for work and he uses this to you can say support his proposition about selling
According to the text “.the roads and cabin doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importing every passenger for an alms.” (Paragraph 1, Pg 771 ) Swift gives a description on what is seen in the streets of Ireland, which are beggars and plenty of children who are suffering from poverty and lack of resources. What makes this ironic is that he later offers a plan of selling the children to the wealthy to do what they like and to eat them and that emphasizes how ridiculously bad the economic situation is in Ireland. It is also stated in the text “ "For we can neither build houses ( I mean in the country) nor cultivate land; they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing, till they arrive at six years old"( Page 772,paragraph 6). The irony that can be taken out of this is that Swift is talking about how six year old children aren’t useful for work and he uses this to you can say support his proposition about selling