What does this tell us about language? Language can both reveal and conceal meaning: words can have more than one interpretation so they can be used to express different ideas. However, many people took him to mean it and it has been said that the plan was not widely condemned because it was seen as too shocking to be true. Modest implies "modestly proposing something": Swift did not outright state that he was advocating eating the poor, only that this was a "suggestion". He begins by asking "why not improve upon the human creature?" Then he goes on to suggest that we eat children if the poor cannot afford to feed them. Swift's A Modest Proposal is a persuasive essay in which he employs his most potent talent to "persuade" others to "accept" his advise. What persuasive vocabulary is utilized in the modest proposal? This led directly to the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the establishment of national institutions to protect the poor. However, its effect was to raise serious questions about the treatment of people living in poverty which hadn't been done before. Swift's suggestion was not intended as policy but as entertainment. The practice ended after war protests from parents and political opposition from politicians including William Wilberforce who called for a ban on the trade. It has been estimated that there are still missing in action from World War II where they were taken to be raised by British families. Some have called it "the most famous satire in English literature." It can be considered one of the first examples of social commentary in literature. This essay had a profound effect on its audience and continues to influence readers today. Swift proposed that the government sell poor children into slavery-as servants or agricultural laborers-to be raised by wealthy families in Europe and North America. It was inspired by his observations on poverty in Ireland. A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to the Publick is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729.
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