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Discuss the ways in which Swift criticises his society in 'A Modest Proposal'.
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Discuss the ways in which Swift criticises his society in 'A Modest Proposal'. The proposal that Swift wrote, was aimed at the high class Protestants in Ireland. Swift wanted to show them the injustice of his time of how the Catholics were treated. In his pamphlet, he criticises many different things, such as marriage relationships and landowner behaviour, and then links them to a main criticism, which is how badly the Protestants treat the Catholics, and how they have not realised how bad it really is. Swift used many satirical techniques to bring his point across and by doing so, he had hoped to make the Protestants realised how immoral they were being. Swift creates a narrator as so the reader, who is intended to be a Protestant of high class, can relate to. An example of this is, "It is a melancholy Object to those, who walk through this great Town,...
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