Swifts A Modest Proposal
The use of satire in Swift's A Modest Proposal
According to Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary satire is a way of criticizing a
person, an idea or an institution in which you use humor to show their faults or
weaknesses; a piece of writing in that uses that type of criticism: political/social satire
(1180).
Jonathan Swift, one of the ambiguous and interesting figure of the Anglo-Irish
Literary Tradition, the greatest pamphleteers, and a master of satire, denotes that
'Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but
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 reli...
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