A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift Essay -- sarcasm irony satire

A Modest ProposalA Modest Proposal is everything that a satirical story should be.It intromits sarcasm and irony as Jonathan Swift takes us through a rollercoaster ride to suggest us how the slimy ar treated miserably.The narrator begins by leading us plenty a path. He seems sincereand thinks it is a pity how everywhere you laissez passer in the streets of Dublinyou see the miserable pray people for paw outs. He is seeking a solution to assistance the commonwealth.He appears to be a logical, educated person who makes it clear thathe has been studying this bailiwick for years. He then tells us that he hasa solution to help the babies whose pargonnts cannot afford them. We thinkhis idea exit be charitable and will actually help the poor as well as thenation.The narrator then does something that I think set the tone for therest of the story. He referred to a baby just born as being dropped fromits dam. Animals are dropped from dams, not humans. Therefore poorpeople i n this story are nothing more than animals.We are told how the children are a burden and how instead ofrequiring food and vestments the rest of their lives, they will contributeto the feeding and clothing of many people. Any intelligent person wouldassume he intends to coiffe them in factories or farms to work and not be onthe streets begging for food. We are also told that his plan will preventvoluntary abortions and women murdering their pricking babies. The narrator shows the reader he is serious by producingcalculations that appear to be well thought-out and then showing us,through examples, That these children have no future.Up to this point the narrator appears to be intelligent. He isfrom the upper cla... ...eir right soul would want to beeaten? Yet he tells us that the parents would have been in favor of it.The narrator commented on how he has no other penury than thepublic good for his country but his country does not include everybody.Only the rich and th ose who can take care and support themselves.I think that Jonathan Swift tried to show how terrible the poorwere treated. Everyone was to crabbed to help them. He compared them toanimals and referred to them as creatures. I think he did this to showwhere their society was heading. The rich simply did not care about whathappened to the poor and they were literally eating them out of house andhome. Jonathan Swift wrote this satirical move so the people would atleast acknowledge that they had a problem. It is to be hoped that enoughpeople read his essay and tried to make a difference.