All authors write with a purpose, an intended audience, and a strategic style to push his or her intentions. For Jonathan Swift, his calling out of Ireland's government in his satire, A Modest Proposal muchly differs from Mary Shelley's’, Frankenstein. However, one may ask how the two have any relation. Both author’s purpose for writing the two stories is to propose a solution to a public issue that they believe will better mankind. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. His father’s death left his family to the Anglo-Irish ruling class with decent means. Swift was educated with the best Ireland offered. In his younger years, during the Glorious Revolution, he was forced out of England where he worked as a secretary of a Whig diplomat. …show more content…
Although, Frankenstein did contain some aspects a piece from the romanticism era would possess, such as idea of love and “flowery” context on the beautiful power of nature. A Modest proposal was written in first point of view, with the narrator as unnames suggesting it is Swift himself. The narrator does not tell his identity for the purpose of allowing the public to have interest in Ireland’s problems rather than the man behind the pen. The narrator writes, “I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in arms, or on backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is, in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance” (Swift 2). The goal is to show how the community is suffering from overpopulation and poverty, which is what he describes in the line above. He later says, “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change” (Swift 38). He suggests the absurd idea of cannibalism but his urgence to call out the leaders of the nation for change is present. The proposal contrasts Frankenstein’s third person point of