Then as to the females, [eating children would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they soon
Society's indifference to poverty
The author, Swift, mentioned little tykes, all in the form of satirical comment on the social order and politics of his time, in England.
Because they contained controversial political views
Because they could have gotten him in trouble with the government
The 4 major targets of the proposal are the: catholics, Irish, English and American people.
ireland was going through an economic crisis and many people were starving, he saw this problem and decide to mock the aristocratic class for being lavish while the rest of the nation perished.
The "modest proposal" was that poor Irish people should sell their children as food to rich people so that the children would not be a burden to their poor parents, but rather a benefit to them.
A novel about children who take over a scho to indirectly criticize the governments policies
The English. Although Swift directly addresses the state of Ireland, it is not directly related to the Irish. After the English Civil War from 1629-1640, Ireland was left in ruins. Swift's writing was nearly one hundred years after the war (1727), but similar to the Southern US after their civil war, it took over one hundred years to fully rebuild the nation. The British eliminated all potential profiting goods from the Irish and left them with nothing. Based on the mercantilist economic theory, Ireland severely suffered. As a result, the Irish starved and were left with a dilapidated country. Swift, and history books as well, are only able to portray a fraction of this squalor. Thus he proposes an absurd cannibilistic strategy that the English would agree with in order to emphasize their lack of the moral implications in regard to the plight of the English. The Irish are often mistaken to be the audience since the text directly addresses them. But, the truth of the matter is that the Irish were absolutely hopeless and powerless to ameliorate their social and political conditions. The power of the satire directly addresses the thought process behind the English and hopes to portray their lack of morality.
It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way. <APEX>
Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" to call attention to abuses inflicted on Irish Catholics by well-to-do English Protestants. He believed England was exploiting and oppressing Ireland.
"A Modest Proposal" is an essay that uses satire to make its point. A satire is a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at vices, abuses, stupidity, and/or any other fault or imperfection.
The definition of a short story is between 2,000 and 7,500 words long.
He was suggesting the Irish should eat the innocent babies.