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This is more than 200 years ago, when Irish satirist Jonathan swift wrote an essay called a modest proposal, in which he suggested that Ireland's poor sell their first year of life to the rich.
The suggestion to eat babies is absurd in itself, and the point is that swift describes the program in a rather serious tone, almost a scientific research approach to the subject.
The absurdity of the proposal and the serious tone in which the proposal was presented caused a sharp conflict, thus forming a fierce irony.
In fact, the irony of this article is so strong that you should be able to understand it as long as you read it. Swift chose with Irish Catholics.
On the one hand, it's a stereotype of Irish thievery.
On the one hand it attacked the Catholic prejudice against pagans.
He exposed the arrogant superiority of the English people to the Irish and Americans.
However, he chose Modest as the title, which serves as a casual and seemingly Modest foil to the absurdity of many mainstream social views at that time.
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A Modest Proposal Criticism
Jonathan Swift wrote this essay about 200 years ago. This was at a time when Ireland
was a British colony. As was common in those days, colonies would face exploitation, and
Ireland's situation was no different. This literary work served as an expose of the arrogant
superiority that the English people demonstrated to the citizens of Ireland and America at that
time. The essay takes on a satirical approach where Swift suggests that Ireland's citizens should
sell their first year of life to the rich people (Swift n.p). Another absurd suggestion from the
essay was that people should begin eating their babies. This was the result of an era where
having an extra baby was a grievance instead of a joyous moment. Therefore, the suggestion was
worthwhile at that time. Swift managed to package this satirical approach of the essay in a severe
tone, which makes the use of irony a success. This is just a brief introduction to bring us to speed
up the major elements of the essay. The rest of this assignment offers a critical commentary to all
the aspects of a modest proposal.
First, it is essential to look at the title's use of the word modest. As earlier mentioned,
these were not great times for the people of Ireland. The exploitation of the citizens was the order
of the day. There were high levels of poverty and unemployment such that people went hungry
and cloth less. The numbers of uneducated children were also soaring high. This only meant that
the natives of Ireland had reached rock bottom, and they could only go up. The way up implies
that they had to worry about their future and fined rescue methods from the grievances. How
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then could such a society be modest? The use of the word small in the title was to create a
satirical feel. It s...
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