In Swift’s writing, “A Modest Proposal”, I was initially extremely interested in how he would attempt to solve the nation’s problem of poverty and beggars. However, to my surprise he had made the utmost ridiculous solutions. It was seriously difficult for me to take anything he had wrote seriously. Was his solution to seriously to fatten up the children, to sell and then eat them?! Swift was able to make a decent argument though. He proposed that this was effective in the way that it would reduce the over population, unemployment, enable parents to be a little less financially burdened, become an enjoyment of abundant food to the wealthy and help improve the economy.
After completing the reading, I came to conclude that this piece was completely satire. I believe that he was making a point about how society wanted to remove the less fortunate by being completely sarcastic at the ridiculous lengths which the better off will try to do in order to solve their problem. Possibly, in Ireland at that time, society was making inhumane decisions about what to do with the poor and just maybe Swift went to extremes to help others realize what a ridiculous proposal they were trying to implement. In my interpretation, Swift has made a great point in a satirist manner.
