Satire In A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift is an enlightenment thinker that uses satire in his writings to bring awareness to the political power and mistreatment of the people of Ireland, ‘‘he was angry or in a fit of despair over Ireland 's economic condition’’(DeGategno). Swift uses satire throughout his proposal, by suggesting to the people of Ireland that they should harvest the little children of the poor. Swift stated that by making ‘‘Them Beneficial to the Public", Ireland would be in a better circumstance. Swift proposed that the poor children 's guardians should give birth to however many number of children as would be possible and offer them for sustenance. Instead of Swift addressing the issue straightforward, Swift used Satire ¬¬¬¬which employs irony sayings- one thing while meaning its opposite—in order to present an argument. He is a genius of sarcastic composition ‘‘a literary form that seeks to correct and conserve cultural and moral values by ridiculing a group 's inappropriate behavior’’(Goldstein). He utilized this form of writing to perpetuate his unobtrusive proposal with the specific end goal, to call attention to the unpleasant treatment of the poor by the rich. Particularly, the way destitution debases and

Yet, the parody has gotten mainly from the ludicrous recommendations. At the point when the reader experiences the "unless," the reader may believe that the passage is going to recognize that, all things considered, eating babies is ethically off-base. Swift subverts this desire by proceeding with the parody, naming the startling complaint of minor populace exhaustion. Although the Irish are the enemy and it is better to have few of them, in any event they help build up the economy and the country. With this additional incongruity, Swift is further elevating the parody, proposing that the author does not imagine that murdering and eating Irish one-year-olds could be ethically