1. In the satirical essay, A Modest Proposal (1729), Jonathan Swift implies that Ireland is overpopulated because the Catholic population is reproducing too much children and therefore by using the children as a marketable strategy it would increase Ireland’s economy. The author supports this by stating that since the kids are delicacies and delicacies don’t come cheaply, not only will the parents make a good profit out of their young ones but this will also make Ireland a hot spot for tourists. The author’s purpose is to satirically argue that Ireland’s children can be raised as food for the wealthy in order to show how the English are treating the Irish so badly that they are literally cannibalizing the Irish people. The intended audience appears …show more content…
-Evaluative: Would the Irish government actually permit their people to do that? Would they even think of it as an option for their people if everything else fails?
3. “There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.” (pg. 1114)
The main reason for Swift’s proposal is to boost Ireland’s economy as well as decrease its overpopulation, but there are also other advantages that he states would come with his proposal. One advantage would be that mothers would no longer have to get abortions when they cannot support their babies as the proposal would boost Ireland’s economy. If Ireland’s economy improves that means that the mothers would no longer have to get abortions because they would have money to support their children well if they aren’t sold off, that is. In Swift’s perspective, his proposal is the change that Ireland needs if it wants to