"A modest proposal"

   Jonathan Swifts "A modest proposal" was an article written about the poverty   and strife of the people of Ireland in 1729.  Swift proposes that women sell their babies after one year of age as food for the wealth of England.  Swifts sarcasm in this article must of made an impact on the minds of whoever read it, with a detailed description of how the people of Ireland and England would profit greatly and restore the economy of Ireland, as well as weeding out all of the starving people of the over populated cities. 
"To prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us! sacrificing the poor innocent babes I doubt more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast."

  It seems that Swifts article was to"make fun of", or impress upon the validity of human manufacture as a reasonable answer to solving the economic issues in Ireland.  This rediculous proposal represented what the people of Ireland were facing.  Starvation, begging, and dying were their only options at the time and England did not seem to care or want to do anything about it.  Swifts article went into great detail about how manufacturing babies as a product would boost the economic crisis with an almost realistic solution as far as solving starvation and over population even though it was morally absurd.  It seems like this is a problem that could of only happened in the 17th century or earlier, but this same crises still goes on all over the world especially in Africa.



















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