In A Modest Proposal the proposer of the solution to Ireland's problem's was Johnathon Swift because he was the author. The audience of this piece of literature, known as a Satire, is the people of Ireland.Johnathon Swift proposes, in this article, that these people make changes and such to fix their problems such as poverty and overpopulation. During this time, the people of Ireland were going through a tragic period; there was so much poverty and overpopulation. People who did not have the means to take care of babies, were having children; this caused overpopulation. As a result, there was not enough food to feed everyone, and there was so much poverty. The terrible poverty and lack of food led to extreme amounts of theft. Thieves started out as young children who grew into criminals; children would steal just to fill their own stomaches. It was a horrible time in Ireland.
Johnathon Swift was a man who wrote this article, not with his own beliefs, but in the hopes that he could grab everyone's attention to the topic at hand and make them see how terrible it had gotten. He wrote a satire to get people to open their eyes; it was like he was shooting a bullet into the sky, he obviously didn't hit the target but he did get everyone's attention. In this article, Swift flat out, suggests that the Irish eat their children to solve the problem of hunger and overpopulation. This is ridiculous.
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