A Modest Proposal Response

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift was an interesting read and I actually thought that this man was considering telling people to eat their children until I realized that it was a work of satire. At the time, Ireland was undergoing bad treatment from England. So, in response to their treatment, Swift wrote this piece about the poor people of Ireland saying that a way to get rid of the poor and fatherless children was to have poor mothers sell their children to be eaten. This way, mothers could make a profit off of their offspring that would otherwise make them and the country poorer. This is obviously a terrible and gruesome idea and Swift was using satire and sarcasm to kind of mock the British. The British all openly thought badly of the Irish and Swift was showing that he knows that they don't like them and he was responding in this sarcastic manner to make them look foolish. Because he is so serious in proposing that the Irish sell and eat children makes the British look very foolish.