A Modest Proposal is a satire piece written by Jonathan Swift. In A Modest Proposal, Swift begins the satire off by informing the readers of the poverty in Ireland. Poverty in Ireland has became a huge pandemic and a solution to this huge problem would be a miracle. After some deep thinking, Swift constructs a proposal as to what the people of Ireland should do. In order to minimize the number of abortions performed by unfit mothers, the economy could blossom by eating the babies. Swift talks about how much a baby is worth and the age of which a baby/child would be most delicious. Then Swift digs a bit deeper by going into detail about what dishes these babies could make and how many people each baby could serve depending on the size of it. Not only will the business of eating babies become profitable, but using babies for gloves and boots would also accumulate a bit of money into the economy that so desperately needs it. Then, Swift backs up his proposal with six reasons as to why this plan should go into action. Swift then ends his proposal by concluding that this would not be such a good solution due to the fact that it will deplete the population of Ireland, and that he is not really interested in profiting from this proposal simply because he doesn't have any children.
Although the whole idea of selling and eating babies was just a satire, I still find this to be very disturbing. Not only is the general idea of eating humans disgusting, but the fact that Swift thought so deeply on this topic, sorted out his ideas, and had everything well thought and planned out really makes me question Swift's sanity. Honestly, who thinks about things like that?
Nevertheless, on the economic side, I believe that it was quite brilliant. I know that I probably sound disgusting, but from a non-bias point of view, the money being made from selling and eating babies would help a lot of the starving families in Ireland. (Although this plan would never go into action)
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