A Modest Proposal Rhetorical Analysis

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Essay: Assignment 1
The piece of satire entitled “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift starts out thoroughly explaining, in gritty detail the effects of the economically overbearing English landowners starving the Irish lower classes out of prosperity. As stated by, Sayre (2015), Swift described the terrible status quo as such “Irishmen worked farms owned by Englishmen who charged them such high rents that they were frequently unable to pay them, and consequently lived on the brink of starvation.”
The surprise solution, detailed in the same cold, expressionless behavior as the lengthy description of the situation, was that the most plentiful livestock available in the Irish countryside was children and, consequently, should be consumed and