"A Modest Proposal" a political statement Mouth-watering, delicious and delightful are some of the words that come to mind when you think of "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift. His satire on living conditions in 1729 was meant to draw his readers into serious discussion about the distressing issues plaguing their society. His extreme and sarcastic response to the treatment of the ever-growing poor population of Irish families by wealthy English landowners. , was to bring to light an issue they had come to accept as normal, over time English landowners acquired ownership of Irish lands and returned them to Irish farmers at scandalous prices almost impossible for farming families to make ends meet and in some cases to the point of starvation. As many children of poor families grew up, they fled to foreign lands in search of a better life or turned to a life of crime to make a living. to live. The staggering number of children born to parents who could not support them was shocking and of a certainty rarely seen in wealthy families. Through this essay, he forced current government officials of the time to come up with rational solutions that would address the large population of poor Irish farmers and fix the conditions in which they lived. The situation he was highlighting so vividly was the way in which English landowners were devouring parents financially, to which he sarcastically replied, "why not devour the children too?" His proposed solution made the reader consider these issues and was supposed to help stop the mistreatment of the common citizen. Jonathan Swift also expressed the fact that people are constantly trying to solve their social and economic problems through paper ... Jonathan Swift was not trying to plunge the country into cannibalism for profitable gains, but to show readers that their society he had lost the divine love and mutual care on which contempt for those who continually proposed illogical solutions that would never work was based. Swift, a pamphleteer, who is the equivalent of the modern newspaper columnist today, wrote for political reasons and shared his opinions in a way that made people dislike the current state of society. The way he presented his opinions forced them to see the truth of the matter If one considers the course of events that followed the publication of the essay and the impact it had, along with its consideration in his literary works as among his most drastic, shows the importance of his political position against. English hegemony.