Swifts A Modest Proposal
their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world,
and that so very few are offended with it' (Swift). The current essay attempts to
analyze the use of satire in Jonathan Swift's most discussed pamphlet A Modest
Proposal and the purposes of using this specific genre.
The pamphlet reveals a vast number of social and religious problems: one of the
major at those days was beggary. The satire was written in 1729, at the time, when
economic situation of the country was extremely prejudiced by another crop failure.
Thousands of poverty-stricken Irish were dying of starvation, causing the country's
population to fall. However, despite the famine and constantly increasing number of
deaths, the government did not implement measures to improve the existing
situation. Thence, Swift, being an Irishman by birth and feeling disappointed of the
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