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In A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift satirically proposes that the babies of the poor be swerved in various ways and eaten by the rich of Ireland.
A Modest Proposal was written in 1729 by Jonathan Swift. It is written about the crop failures in Ireland. The narrator is satirical.
Poverty in Ireland
"A Modest Proposal"
im pretty sure its Dublin, Ireland
"A Modest Proposal"
To criticize his government's policy on Ireland.
The thesis is that Ireland is starving so he suggests that the people of Ireland eat infants.
To criticize his governments policy on ireland
overpopulation
Jonathan Swift's title is sarcastic, because "The Modest Proposal" is a satire of the conditions facing lower-class people in Ireland at the time it was written. His suggestion of eating children is outrageous; it is called "modest" sarcastically because the satire is meant to draw attention to the problem in Ireland through irony and exaggerations and understatements.