Jonathan Swift wrote a satirical
persuasive essay “A Modest Proposal” (1729) claims that people need to focus on
the ever pressing issue of the over population and poverty of Ireland. Swift
illuminates the necessity for change through the use of satire; he used a
persona that deeply believed, and was persuading for, the benefits of feeding
the impoverished one year olds of the nation to the elite class, solving not
only the over population rate, but also their economy. Jonathan Swift’s purpose
in this piece is to persuade readers, not to follow his persona’s example of
killing babies, but to use only Irish manufactured goods (to boost the
economy), to join together (to boost nationalism), and to instill honesty in
shopkeepers; this would improve Ireland as a whole and bring it out of it’s
current state. Swift’s audience is fairly narrow; he is speaking directly to
the indifferent people of Ireland (he uses the word “our” as in the Irish) to
tell them that they need to focus on and help their Nation.
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