A Modest Proposal By Jonathan Swift
“A Modest Proposal”, by Jonathan Swift is a graceful, frank and delusional piece of literature. It was written in the 1800’s to both comment on the ever-growing list of ridiculously useless and uninformed proposals written to help the Irish out of their temporary rut of poverty and famine, and to
“Under the present situation of affairs, it is utterly impossible by all methods hitherto proposed…” Swifts calm and straight forward manner would lead a reader - not paying close enough attention, to view his proposal as logical and written to ‘honestly’ help as was the case with many other educated Englishmen of the time, who all wanted to give their superior advice to help their lesser peoples of Ireland.
Through use of certain words and phrases,
“Under the present situation of affairs, it is utterly impossible by all methods hitherto proposed…” Swifts calm and straight forward manner would lead a reader - not paying close enough attention, to view his proposal as logical and written to ‘honestly’ help as was the case with many other educated Englishmen of the time, who all wanted to give their superior advice to help their lesser peoples of Ireland.
Through use of certain words and phrases,