A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a seemingly outrageous proposal, but by the proposal he indicts the English Provenstan Irony in A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift is a seemingly outrageous proposal, but by the proposal he indicts the English Protestants for their cruel and inhumane treatment of the Papists, or the Catholics, through both economic and Political oppression. And Swift has ironically shown these oppressions, unawareness and cruelty of the Government, landlords and the masses by this essay. Swift's motives for writing A Modest Proposal, which appeared in 1729, were complex. He lived in an Ireland which was a colony and it was politically, militarily and economically dependent upon England . It was clearly in England 's interest to keep a weak Ireland that could not threaten England , and the measures that kept were weak. As a result, Ireland was a desperately poor country, overpopula...