The Modest Proposal Satire

If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal. This is an example of satire because; it uses sarcasm to undermine democracy. A satire is a use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Satires is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. The Modest Proposal is a satire that talks about ways we can use Roman Catholic babies by eating them, selling them.

Even though, Swift story was a satire, swift still made lots of sense. The reason I said that is because, the English colony goes to other countries, and take everything over. They also take their land and then sell it back to them for profit. This makes other colonies poor, and most people ends up starving or catching a disease, and dying from it. So why not take the kids from the other countries and eat them; you killing them anyways why not speed up the process. This is what John Swift was trying to say, but in a satirical way. All in all, the only way to stop all the problems is to establish your colony, and give the other colonies their land and freedom back.

If you read the essay he talks about how he wants to sell the babies flesh for profit, and put the babies on a platter so he can serve them like a hot pig. This is saying that if you treat the Irish like animals you should eat them like animals. To sum up, Swift is not saying lets eat children; he is saying they need to change the way they treat other colonies, or they should just should eat them because, they going to die out