Swift's "A Modest Proposal

“A Modest Proposal”
By Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift’s “ Modest Proposal” in my opinion was written to exploit the socioeconomic issues of Ireland, in a kind of funny and subtle way. It was his way of drawing attention to the problem of a poverty-stricken, uneducated and oppressed population of Ireland. I felt that Swift used irony to tell his story. In fact I found is proposal quite ironic, since surely, no one would take his proposal seriously. Although I found the story to be shocking, I think that is just what Swift intended it to be. By reducing the poor people of Ireland to the level of foodstuff, Swift exposed just how much indi...