Part one of term paper
In very simple terms, A Modest Proposal is a satire of the social and economic events in Ireland. It was written in the early eighteenth century in an attempt to shame England and to shock Ireland. Jonathan Swift lived in an Ireland which was a colony, politically, militarily, and economically dependent on England. England was happy to kee ...

Part two of term paper
... the children of Ireland for food and then sale the carcasses to England to improve Ireland's living conditions. Swift was writing in response to the belief that the English are taking control and destroying the Irish. It definitely shows England as the villain. " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it." ...