Category: A Modest Proposal

Politicians, religious leaders, and group leaders alike have preyed on the weaknesses of their constituents and taken advantage of their disposition to be persuaded easily into circumstances with the lack of rational thinking and reasoning. In his controversial essay A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift, through his use of satire and logos, expresses the dangers of…

In this research paper, the purpose of this study will be to identify the differences and similarities between Oliver Goldsmith’s and Jonathan Swift’s satire. This paper will also compare and contrast the social criticism of Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift to todays varying issues. Both Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift had many things in common…

Europes Seventeenth to Eighteenth Century Romantic, Victorian, and Modern eras was marked by a poverty-stricken society. Rapid industrialization gave rise to Britain, but it has brought many social and economic problems. Ireland had no universal provisions, and the poor wandered the streets begging for jobs and money. The ruling class was unsympathetic towards the suffering…

To normalize consuming the flesh of an organism from one’s own species might be an exposition to the unceasing poverty. Jonathan Swift, an Irish author and a well-known satirist, wrote A Modest Proposal, published in the year 1729. His argument includes a proposition wherein children from the penurious families should be eaten to prevent being…

To revisit that which I previously mentioned earlier within this essay, there is also an implicit critique of Catholicism within this misogynistic proposal, though the link to religion is particularly subtle in its ties to misogyny. Within the proposers narrative critiquing poor women with many children, this target of religion exists amidst Swifts more explicitly…

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public (Swift 2431). If you have ever heard of Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal, but have not read it, you probably have heard something along the lines of it being…