A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is a story full of satire and irony focusing on England’s economic oppression and nonchalant attitude over Ireland during the early 1700s. His use of irony was his way to reach the people of England in hopes that they would offer a more feasible social plan that would benefit both the economies of Ireland and England, and more importantly, the people themselves. The Narrator in …showed first 75 words of 601 total…

…showed last 75 words of 601 total…and “to criticize the reader as representative of all who endure calmly the intolerable actuality in the world [. . .] of our own inhumanity to our fellow human beings” (430). It is hoped that enough people read his essay and tried to make a difference. Works Cited Encyclopaedia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article.html. Swift, Jonathan. A Modest Proposal. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Ed. Maynard Mack. New York: W•W• Norton & Company, 1995. 483-489