Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels

Any work that attempts to enlighten the world about the realism of political and social problems are admirable works of political and social criticizes. Enlightening others about poverty and war is admirable because everyone in the world needs to realize what is going on in the world instead of just want is going on in their hometown. 

There are a lot of people in the world who suffer from poverty and the effect of war, but not a lot of people know about it because the world tries to hide their problems. A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift are admirable works of political and social criticizes. 

In A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift makes a proposal to sell the children of Ireland to be eaten. This proposal will solve the view that the England has about the Irish people beginning subhuman. Swift is saying that the people of England talk about how horrible the Irish are so they might as well literally eat them. Swift demonstrates this when he talks about the Irish women being breeders and not showing a bond between them and their children, which some times lead them to murder their babes. 

Swift suggests that selling children at a young age to be eaten would “increase the care and tenderness of mothers towards their children, when they were sure of a settlement for life, to the poor babes, provided in some sort by the public to their annual profit instead of expense” (Swift, p.43). Swift is suggesting that the children of the Irish can be a money crop instead of a maintenance that the English people constantly comment on when he writes, “ Preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or county, and for making them beneficial to the public”( Swift, p.41).