![]() ![]() Swift’s use of metaphors is graphic, gripping, and disturbing simultaneously. In his writing, although grotesque, Swift’s use of satire effectively confronts the abuses and shortcomings of the political and economic structure of the time, and he successfully uses sarcasm as a constructive method to criticize the social issues faced by the poor Irish natives. He employed satire and irony as an effective tool to make the reader understand the state of oppression of the Irish using the most extreme statements. ![]() His essay, very skillfully, brings shame to and sheds light upon the impoverishment of the Irish people at the hands of England’s greed for profits. The full title includes, “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public” (Swift 558). ![]() ?Another Look at A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” incorporates satire in his writing that exposes England’s economical exploitation of Ireland. ![]()
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