Jonathan Swift is very sardonic in his essay, A Modest Proposal. The essay starts off addressing the serious problem of the hunger crisis in the poverty of Ireland. He throws out numbers, statistics, and other facts pertaining to the problem. Then he proposes his solution: To eat the poverty born babies. This is where the essay takes an interesting turn. The reader starts to recognize a degree of sarcasm in Swift's voice. Now that the sarcasm has been noted, to fit the definition, there must be something being criticized by th
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