Summary "A Modest Proposal" is a satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift to mock and criticize the degradation of Ireland's society during a period of economic decline. ... Disgusted by the backwards state of Ireland and its social classes, author Jonathan Swift constructs a ridiculous proposal in his satirical essay "A Modest Proposal". ... Due to the fact that "A Modest Proposal" is satirical, the care that Swift displays for the poor in his essay, as witnessed through his proposal to alleviate the burden from their shoulders, is used to disguise his actu...

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Jonathan Swift, author of "A Modest Proposal," takes advantage of the overlooked pamphlets, and constructs a ridiculous proposal. ... He also states that his proposal would make the babies "beneficial to the public". ... In "A Modest Proposal", Swift effectively uses insincerity, sarcasm, and rhetorical exaggeration to reveal his annoyance of politicians, papists, and overall citizens of poverty-stricken Ireland in the late seventeenth century. ... Jonathan Swift not only uses rhetoric to dehumanize the children throughout the proposal, but he engages his sarcasti...

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In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," Swift argues that the Irish might improve their national economy and poverty if they sell their children as food for those who are well to do. ... One of the rhetorical devices used by Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" was irony. ... Therefore, the use of irony in "A Modest Proposal" was to show that since the wrong or complete opposite idea was put up, everyone should understand that none of what is being suggested should actually be taken literally. ... At this point of Swift's "modest proposal," ...

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Swift's "Modest Proposal- Jonathan Swift's proposal to Ireland concerning growing and selling babies for food and clothing is a barbaric and irrational idea "at first, but Swift gradually manipulates the reader to accept his thoughts as intelligent and rational. Swift uses satire throughout his "Modest Proposal- "satire meaning the use of sarcasm, or humor in a literary piece to ridicule or attack human vices. ... Satire is very clearly developed in Swift's proposal. ... This makes one wonder what his actual proposal is going to be about. ... The proposal becomes ...

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I believe that Montaigne and his essays are very important, but I believe that his essays are easier to understand than it is to understand Swift's "A Modest Proposal." ... Now I will turn to Swift and his "A Modest Proposal." ... = 8 shillings There are six advantages to his proposal as well. ... Swift also cannot personally profit from his proposal because he has no children by which he can propose to get a single penny. ... He also cannot profit from his proposal because his wife is past child bearing. ...

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