Compare And Contrast A Modest Proposal And Letter From Birmingham Jail

A Modest Proposal and the Letter from Birmingham Jail are both written by two men who were trying to make life better for their people. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift have well educated Christian Clergymen who fell victim to an oppression of their people. Being well educated they were both knew what they were talking when writing to the given audience. Among those similarities, there are also differences between the writings and the men themselves. Swift’s purpose of his written was to create an equal treatment of the Irish men from the English. He writes “It’s true, a child just dropped from its dam…”(Swift). The word dam is a word used for female livestock and he is saying that the English treat the Irish worse than the animals