In Swift’s short story he humorously presents an idea to solve most of Ireland’s struggle of constant deprivation and poverty, while also venting his frustrations of the wealthy and powerful. In the early paragraphs, he builds up the topic of Ireland’s problem by spending the first couple paragraphs listing the problems that conflict his homeland by eerily saying the population problem is one of the main contributors to Ireland’s deterioration. Swift has calculated and has accounted for the price and moral weight of taking care of a child, so he closes his opening points by suggesting to the reader a notion to actually consume children. The main rhetorical challenge of this ironic essay is capturing the attention of an audience whose indifference has been well grounded. Swift makes his point negatively, stringing together an appalling set of morally untenable positions in order to cast blame and aspersions far and wide as Swift explains that the rich are selling out the people for what little scrap the once great land once offered. Swift main thing was using …show more content…
The language that likens people to livestock becomes even more prevalent in this part of the proposal. The breeding metaphor works as a harsh criticism of family values in local Catholic families, who regard marriage as an economic gain instead of a loving bond and regard family with so little sanctity that they effectively make comparison to animals of themselves. In emphasizing that this foolproof plan is directed towards them, Swift is calling attention to the extremity of his country's reverse thinking, as an index of how bad things have