English landlords

In paragraph 13 'everybody wins' because a gentlemen will pay 10 shillings for a carcass of a 'good fat child' as it will feed his family very well which means that the mother of the child will get 8 shillings in profit which will enable her to buy food and clothes for herself until she falls pregnant again. This shows a win-win scenario and will improve the lives of the poor. In paragraph 14, Swift mentions the other ways in which you can use the baby e.

g. to use the skin to make gloves for ladies and boots for gentlemen.

It is like there is an endless twisted use for the babies. There seems to be pro's for everything. It gets worse when he suggests that you buy the babies live and roast them hot from the knife like a kebab. This statement is created to horrify the reader as it is a sickening image to reflect on. He may find it comical as he knows that it's all a joke but the readers could take great offence to some of the satire he is using.

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In paragraph 16 Swift says that someone gave him an idea on how to improve the scheme even more by saying 'why stop at one year olds?

Replace animals like deer with teenagers. Swift didn't like this idea (ironically) because he says that the meat of school boys would be tough and lean from all the exercise they do which wouldn't be very nice to eat and as for the girls, well it would be a waste as they would grow up to be breeders themselves so they will be of use in the near future.

Of course, it would be dreadful to end the lives of thirteen year old children so this is very ironic.

Swift argues that the proposal will definitely work by giving many ironic and sarcastic examples like 'the young labourers' in paragraph 20. He says that if they are not getting fed properly then they are unable to work to their full potential so they must eat the meat of babies to aid the country's work force. In paragraph 21 he uses abusive terms to represent the Catholics as 'papists'. He says that the plan will remove the Catholics from Ireland. In the next paragraph, Swift says that the Catholic's lives are useless and they have nothing worth living for.

It's better off to get rid of them as their existence is pointless. He uses a lot of statistics to keep the reader positive that the idea will be a success for example in the way he uses 'firstly... Thirdly... sixthly' shows that he is trying to make the reader think that there are numerous points that support the proposal. He says that the babies will provide meals for taverns and a new kind of food for the rich to buy. It is ironic when he says that 'fine gentlemen' will serve this food in their houses.

In paragraph 26 swift says that the upbringing of the baby will be a 'great inducement to marriage' as the parents will be caring for the child and the attention will be on the babies' health. The husband will not abuse the wife as there could be a risk of a miscarriage. This would be terrible because the child is the only form of income. Swift is arrogant when he concludes the proposal, there is little irony used and he summarises the whole thing in a paragraph including the key points.

He says that the poor people will be completely safe from harsh weather because they can stay in the house by paying the rich English landlords with their raised baby. Overall, the proposal created awareness of the horrific conditions in Ireland that the Catholics were living in and what they would have to give up just so they could feed their families. He uses a lot of exaggeration as the purpose of the piece was to entertain the readers. However as it was a piece of satire people wouldn't always see the veiled meanings behind so they would be horrified at the level of inhumanity in the writing.

He was criticising both the Catholics and the Protestants even though he is protestant which means that he wasn't just writing a biased anti-English piece. He wanted to criticise both sides by writing an agenda to help Ireland. I think that it is a very successful piece of satire as it is a world famous piece of writing that gave out messages to the public about the way people were being treated and to see the reactions that people would give by reading it. The key point is that it would be better to die at one years old that having to live a life of suffering in Ireland.