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A Modest Proposal
The problem that Swift identifies is the population in his society is causing a lack of resources which included fewer jobs for people, homeless people, and starvation of people. Swift is making fun of how people should start eating babies. The purpose to his idea was based in cutting the population down and having people eating meat and getting protein from the baby's. Swift proposed to star eating baby's including the suggestion in women given birth to more baby's providing more baby's to be killed. The more baby's they were able to kill, the more food they had and the less people they had in their society.
His solution is not logical. It is very dramatic because the audience knows that people are not really going to eat babies but yet the idea is thrown out causing women to faint due to his proposal. Swift created this proposal to get the society attention and to make them realize that something must be done. in order to become a better society. Satire brings attention and is blaming the people for the conditions the people are living with and by Swift proposing this proposal his goal is to correct them. Swift uses irony and exaggeration to explain his message.