Jonathan Swift's Essay A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burden to their parents, or coutry, and for making them beneficial to the public. The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to " find out a fair, cheap and easy method for converting the starving children of Ireland into sound and useful members of the coommonwealth. Predominantly Catholics, across the country were poor and living in squalor due to the overwhelmingly poor families who can't provide for their kids. Jonathan Swift argues for a way to turn this problem into his own solution. His Proposal, in effect, is to fatten up these undernourished children and feed them to the families. This in my opinion is ironic because the parents were supposed to provide for the children and in turn the children provide for them.
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