Jonathan Swift Rhetorical Analysis

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During the time that Jonathan Swift wrote his proposal, there was a major issue in Ireland concerning the poverty-stricken children who were unable to feed themselves and were on the side of the streets begging or had died from starving to death. Swift expresses the need for a solution and with that creates a proposal on what he believes the best next step of action is. Swift implements voice that dehumanizes the people, high level diction that creates emphasis, and logos to create a satirical argument that taunts the british government and raises awareness of the poverty that is being ignored. Swift understood that in order to convince the people of his argument, the way he discussing the ideas in a satirical tone were a critical aspect. Therefore he often practice speaking in a way that made people not seem like humans. In the last few paragraphs he jokes about “quote”. Identifying the women as breeders is done to treat them, as livestock. This certain style of voice dehumanizes the children to make them seem more expendable which emphasizes that satirical proposal that eating the babies are okay. …show more content…
Swift takes such an evil act of murdering and eating a child and turns it into an regular decision of either baking or boiling a meal. In reality, Swift is advocating for economic reform, however, by using unnatural diction, he accomplishes his goal of maintaining the reader’s attention in hopes that upon concluding the essay they will realize how dire the situation of Ireland is and come up with tangible reform that can get Ireland out of it’s current