There is a mixture of politics and entertainment as well as the social critique and Swift was right in publishing such a paper because he was ahead of his time. This pamphlet is witty and it holds attention because it has bitter humor as well. However, critique is always welcome because it reveals all the flaws of the system and the fact that there is social inequality and social injustice. This is a social critique and people did not understand it well at the time because they believed that nobody had the right to criticize them. Upper classes and aristocracy are not the problem and only poor people are. He is deliberately making fun of the rulers who are selfish and do not care about the problems of common people. He believes “that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust” (Swift, 2014, p. It sounds as if babies were pigs ready to be slaughtered and eaten as a delight. He mocked them about the way to deal with overpopulation which was a problem in Ireland. Swift wanted to criticize the society and did it in a way that made them look like savages. The British government proved to be uncivilized and there was also the issue of Irish incompetence, so the satirical political pamphlet which suggests that they should resort to cannibalism if they are unable to think of a better way to solve the social problems is adequate. This essay contains a lot of irony and this pamphlet is political because it criticizes British rule. His proposal about using babies for food is very original and it deals with the nature of people who are cruel and who cannot find a good way to take care of the well-being of the citizens. Swift was mocking the way the British dealt with Irish people. A Modest Proposal was written in the 18th century by Jonathan Swift and the proposal he makes in this essay is not real, but satirical.

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