A_Modest_Proposal_Jonathan_Swift

A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift Written in complete parody, Jonathan Swift addresses the issue of dealing with the poor in Ireland in his satirical work, “A Modest Proposal”. During a time when a caste system was a basis for government, and when the English who governed Ireland held Catholicism in disdain, Swift clearly threw stones with his essay. The author begins by blaming the existence of the poor for the hardships of the kingdom; this is complete irony, since it would be the existence of the government (as it were) that caused the hardships of the poor during this time period. In essence, the author is blaming the government and the politicians of murder by starvation of the poor due to heavy taxation. While it allowed the landlords and owners of the property, that the poor work so hard to cultivate, escape the heavy taxation, and only imposing what would amount to a token payment when compared equally with the taxes required of the poor. Swift even goes so far as to suggest that the way of poor, swift, time, government, work, threw, theory, taxation, stones, politicians, life, irony, ireland, heavy, hardships, existence, essay, easy, during, complete, compared, blaming, being, author, able, young, written, words, while, way, utter, trade, toward, token, taxes