A Modest Proposal Analysis
Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is very satiric piece of writing. Swift uses many different tools to achieve his satiric tone, including diction and syntax. Because of the way Swift writes it is very easy to read his proposal and not realize that it is satiric. The title of the piece itself is ironic, for what Swift proposes is anything but modest and simple. At first, it seems like any other business proposal or formal argument one might have seen at the time this paper was written. The author states a problem – namely, children are growing up starving and poor - and then proceeds to offer a solution to it as well as other problems in the process. For the first half-dozen paragraphs, Swift extrapolates on the problem and gives some facts about the growing number of children that are being raised in desolate homes, with little or no education and with little hope of becoming anything useful to society. Swift gives the
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Modest Proposal, TIMED WRITING, modest proposal, cost raising,
Approximate Word count = 651
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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