In A Modest Proposal, Johnathan Swift had an idea, his idea was to prevent children from being burthen to their parents. Swift wrote a cruel yet eye opening proposal that he wanted society to be aware of. Swift uses logos by illuminating how the structure used to by giving us an notion of numerical data and interlinks with how today society’s is challenged by not able to fix current problems one faces. His claim was that the central problem of Ireland poverty can be solved by selling children as food. Swift supports his claim by giving us hypnotical evidence. How many children to be sold and gives statistical data to price the weight of the children. He also gives recipes and innovative ways of cooking the meat of the children to be a delicacy. Swift tries to support his argument by stating, “hundred and twenty thousand children already computed.” This amount of …show more content…
Ireland and England sugar coat the mass problem they are facing. The hypocrisy of the wealthy not helping the people who feel like there are incapable of anything. Swift makes his point destructively position that doesn’t agree with set morality. But instead he focuses his argument to blame the Irish politicians whose indifference has enforced the economic utilitarianism. Swift is repulsed by how people seem like they are incapability of dealing with their own problems. Stereotypes against Irish Catholics make it less demanding for Swift to utilize them as the subject of his satire. The stereotypes are available in both the explanations behind the proposition and the dialect