Essay On A Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift’s, A Modest Proposal, is a satire about the social, political, and religious positions of Britain and Ireland. In this Swift proposes that children, at the age of one years old, should be sold and eaten, and their skins be used to make profitable products. He supports this claim by stating that this would help society because it would provide food, and take starving children off the streets. Also it would discourage abortions, and men beating their pregnant wives because they child would become profitable. This proposal highlights Britain’s exploitation of Ireland. Also Swift underscores England’s barbarity by using a narrator who offers a rational, and reasonable sounding solution to the problem of Ireland’s crushing poverty. Swift exposes the immorality of English politicians who made policies that made them rich while leaving everyone else hungry and poor. The rational view of the narrator satirizes the Enlightenment’s view of human society as a
Everything that exists plays a role in the divine plan, and God thus has a specific intention for every element of his creation. Pope explains the existence of evil in the world by saying that man is ignorant and imperfect. Pope says man is imperfect but perfectly suited to his place within the hierarchy of creation according to the general order of things. Also he exerts man’s sin of pride—the attempt to gain more knowledge and pretend to greater perfection—is the root of man’s error and misery. By putting himself in the place of God, judging perfection and justice, man acts impiously. Pope says that the imperfection of man are his ignorance, man’s limited intellect can comprehend only a small portion of God’s order and likewise can have knowledge of only