Restoration Question Five

It seems to me that the most important thing to these people was surviving. In all of the text that I have read from this period in time, it seems that everyone is either dying from plague or begging on the streets for food. It seems like this was a hard period of time for all of the people in Europe. In the Journal of the Plague Year, everyone was dying from sickness and fleeing to London. The main thing that was important was surviving and getting you and your family away from the plague.

In A Modest Proposal, the main thing that was discussed was how terrible and oppressed it was in Ireland. There were people on the street, mainly women, begging for food and money to feed their many illegitimate children. It talked about how people and families and children had to steal food from the street market just to survive. Everything about this time was depressing because of all of the deaths from sickness like in the Journal of the Plague Year. In a Modest Proposal, the oppression had gotten so bad and the people were so poor that this man wrote an awful sarcastic passage about eating children because the country could not afford them and selling them and eating them would help the economy. So, I think that surviving during these times was the most important thing to these people during this time.