Papism In A Modest Proposal

In “A Modest Proposal”, Swift proposes that the babies of the poor and homeless can “contribute to the feeding, and partly to the cloathing of many thousands”, in order to recuperate Ireland’s economy. He creates this preposterous proposal as an attack to those he considers responsible for Ireland’s deficiency during the late seventeenth century. Swift uses sarcasm and wit to blast the British Government, corrupt landlords and merchants. Also, Swift indicates animosity towards the Roman Catholics referred to as “papists”, in his proposal he says “will have one other collateral advantage, by lessening the number of papists among us”.