A Modest Proposal

The satirical essay, A Modest Proposal, discusses how the consideration of others as equal entities had not been taken into account in Ireland. Rather they were exploited unmercifully by the British government.
While in Ireland Swift observed that the Irish peasants citizens were too poor to feed their families with the staggering poverty and over population among the lower classes of Ireland. To solve the problem of the poverty-stricken, oppressed and uneducated population of Catholics in Ireland, Swift proposes that thousands of the children should be killed and eaten. …