Analysis Of Modest Proposal

I was surprised by the gap between the title and components of Modest Proposal. He uses the word “modest”, but his proposal is shocking and surprising. His suggestion was that the people in Ireland at the time of potato feminine should sell and eat children. At the time, there was lots of poor people in Ireland, and there were a problem that people were too poor to feed their children. Some of them killed infants when they were still in mother’s belly or stopped growing their children. He said his suggestion helps people to save money, clothes, and foods. Also, it makes parents’ affection toward children because they will be money or food. He suggested such a terrible and absurd proposal, nevertheless, he made a title “Modest Proposal”. I think he tried to share the bad situation of Ireland to readers. I feel his word “modest” means that the proposal is much more modest than what happened in Ireland. I mentioned that the attitudes toward children was terrible because it takes lots of money to raise children up. He tried to gather people’s attention by using this word. In the last part of the reading, Swift mentions “ i am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any offer proposed by

They need to feed the children only a few years and make money by selling the children. I think this suggestion is understandable even if his suggestion has no kindness because the mother's burden is really big and they cannot have their own time during raising children. He also said that it encourages them to marry; however, I think it might be one of the reasons of decreasing children. If they decide to raise a child, it takes lots of money and time, but if they sell the child, they could have some money and time to spend themselves. Therefore, there is a possibility that they prefer selling children than feeding. There would be no people who can work after a few