Week 4 - Assignment 1

Assignment 1Introduction

Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' intents to provide the answers towards the rising concerns of starvation in Ireland. He takes up an ironical strategy that makes the reader surprise in the conclusion of the account. In the start, he concentrates to put forward content that will advantage the community and alleviate financial constraints. He proposes the matter of selling poor Irish kids to the well-off people so that they could get basic necessities of life. Also, he stipulates that this will decrease the stress of poor people as it will get them food and edibles. Conversely, ...