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☆☆☆☆☆Jonathan Swift used sarcasm or irony throughout A Modest Proposal.
unemployment
Social-class inequality
It encourages change or reform.
It reveals flaws in a society in an indirect way.
he wanted his readers to see their own errors in logic and morality
upper-class families of ireland - apex
It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way. <APEX>
Sarcasm
Pope's The Rape of the Lock
How the antagonist opposes other characters in the story
Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed . . . it is very well known, that they are every day dying . . . as fast as can be reasonably expected.
In a novel, homeless people build cardboard-box homes in a gated neighborhood, revealing the need for social change
Money
Showing the power of reconciliation
Character versus character
It criticizes British attitudes toward poverty in Ireland, but in an indirect way.
They can live as beggers
They can fight in Spain.
