A Modest Proposal from my perspective

This week was very very interesting for me. We talked about social life of England in 18th century that was very scary especially for children and analyzed Jonathan Swifts’s A Modest Proposal. I can say I begin to like 'satire'.

Firstly, 18th century was a century that many machineries were developed and England gained importance. On the other hand, with the increasing of population, many children had to work even they were under 12 years. A few born could live because they had lack of food and many diseases were rising. And this caused the need of critisizing the society. If you want to know how terrible that times, you should read A Modest Proposal.

A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift argues the idea of preventing the children of poor families from dying and making them beneficial. It seems quite reasonable at first, but actually this idea is disgusting. Of course, this was written to make a satire of the government and I think, this was very successful work in terms of enlightening the society. What disgusting is to consider all that were written are real. It’s quite normal that when you read this, at first you might imagine these as real. All people who lived at those times didn’t understand the irony, as well. Swift explaines his ideas so effective by using numbers and calculations that we can say this work reflects the features of the terms exactly.

To sum up, social events change the literature. Works are written according to the needs. If we want to make a conclude, then we have to take into account characteristics of the period.