Jonathan Swift Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Jonathan Swift blames the incompetent Ireland’s politicians, the hypocritical English aristocrats for Ireland’s socio-economic troubles while satirizing powerless poor Irish with two voices. Swift points out that the root cause of failure of Ireland’s leaders is their irresponsibility and their greed. Ironically, Swift brings the social state of Ireland to the attention of politicians, by suggesting putting the poor Irish children in the food market. Swift’s pseudo-scientific proposal is trying to make the reader feel that the argument is a wisecrack and to revise our view of the Ireland's political situation without pitting moral judgment against the poor. This essay presents the polar claims of proposer’s satirical voice and serious Swift's

Both opposing voices that focus the actual socio-economic issues help to form objective views of the rich without pitying the poor. The breeding metaphor works to frame an assessment of family values among Irish Catholics. Catholics, who regard marriage with so little piety, make breeding animals of themselves. Swift’s voice rejecting the proposer’s view that the marriage is not a solely survival tool but a sacred union of two individuals. The essay mostly secure at the hands of proposer “Secondly, the poorer tenants will have something their own by law …”(196). Proposer’s economic discourse shows that the proposal brings money to the poor Irish. However, Swift’s implicitly illustrates that the poor working class’s benefit covers only loans from those with the power, making aristocrats richer than ever before. Proposer replies that Irish economy continues in such way, debtors should concentrate on paying their debts off, so they could not starve. Swift stands against proposer's sentiment of his day that the beggars are poor because it is their fault. The beggars are poor because Ireland is in long lasting socio-economic trouble because the English ruling class wants more