Analysis Of The Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift

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The essay that was most argued effectively is Jonathan Swift essay “The Modest Proposal”. Most people might disagree with the argument, but if you the reader would think about it Swift’s catches the reader’s attention with his fake thesis then later makes the reader feel bad once they read the real thesis. Hardin’s is effective but not as effective as Swift’s.
Once you read “Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor” and “The Modest Proposal”. You’ll find interesting things about both sides of the arguments. Hardin is more experience than Swift’s. Hardin has a BS from University of Chicago and a PhD from Stanford University for bioethics. Swift’s had a personal experience, he knows what it’s like to be poor and rich. According to Swift “his speaker presents an apparently logical plan to eliminate poverty and hunger in Ireland. …show more content…

The harsh reality is that in a Lifeboat who are you going to save? For example, Hardin explains about the Lifeboat solution “say 50 people in the boat and we make room for 10 other people, but we see 100 others swimming in the water”. What would you do? I know it’s harsh, but the fact is if you only have enough room for 10 more than only 10 can climb aboard. In “The Modest Proposal” Swift gives the reader a false thesis just to make them read it because without the false thesis no one would have read his modest proposal. Later Swift drops the bomb on them and makes the reader face the fact about not helping the