Critical Analysis Of Jonathan Swifts Modest Proposal

There were many people struggled with poor situation and raising children at the time of Irish Potato feminine. In order to change the bad situation, Jonathan Swift wrote â€Å"Modest Proposal† written about his suggestion. I was shocked by reading â€Å"Modest Proposal† because of the gap between the title and contents. The proposal was that people should sell their children for making their life better. The author said that his proposal has six benefits for Irish people. Also, I found that this reading has both negative and positive aspects for them. In this reading, the author mentions his idea for solving poor situations of Irish at that time. His proposal is that people should eat and sell their children in order to save their money, clothes,†¦show more content†¦Some parents might think that they have children only for selling them. Also, although the author said that the parents become to give affection to their children if they follow the proposal, I think that they do not care their children because they are no longer â€Å"children†, but products. His proposal is good for saving parents, but it is bad for children because there are more merits of selling children than that of raising them. Although, his proposal would have bad effections to children’s life, it would good for letting people know about the situation of Irish. This writing made a lot of arguments all over the world. There were both positive and negative ideas for the suggestion, but it works for getting people’s attentions toward the poor situation of the country. People might become to think and try to support the country. I think he wrote extreme proposal and the title that is not match to the contents because he want to get attention for making the situation better. 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