This essay will cover Jonathan Swifts books "A Modest Proposal" and "Gulliver's Travels". Satire is defined as the use of writing to mock or ridicule a particular person or human weakness in general. Swift was born in 1667 and lived until 1745. At the time Swift was writing about the conditions of poor Catholics in Ireland, a quote states that "for many years these laws excluded Catholics from all public life and much of the ordinary business private social. They made it illegal for Catholics to buy land, get a mortgage on it, rent it at a reasonable profit, or even inherit it normally, this shows that Catholics didn't realize this. This makes me angry because they have no rights. They were treated less than animals. Swift wrote "a modest proposal" to draw people's attention to discrimination against Irish Catholics. I will now consider the use of satire in Swift's text as a "modest proposal" with five satirical techniques: unexpected words, exaggeration, reversal of what is expected, strange or inappropriate comparisons or analogies, and finally starting believably. An example of this is "it is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great city", this is a believable start to the book. It reads like a biography, another example is when he mentions eating babies "a healthy, well-fed baby at one year is a delicious, nutritious and wholesome food." This turns the book on its head. This makes people want to continue reading because of that line. Moving on to Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", Gulliver began the novel in a very believable way by describing it as an autobiographical story. It recounts his early life, provides a lot of detail creating a believable introduction, which is one of the satirical techniques, aided by the inclusion of maps. However this was not a true autobiography due to the meeting of the Lilliputians. The Lilliputians "we tiny" compared to Gulliver this satirical technique is called "reversing the unexpected", he applied it very well. This shows that the censors who allowed this article to be published did not care about what he was doing, another thing Swift was trying to imply was that the authority did not care about his works. They were offered it because of their wealth, not their brains. In chapter five of "Gulliver's Travels" the Blefuscun ships were attacking Lilliput. The emperor ordered Gulliver to seize the entire Blefuscun fleet.