A Modest Rhetorical Analysis
Pre-reading
• What does the title suggest to you? From the title, what do you expect this essay to be about? The title of this essay implies that the paper will be a proposition on a certain situation that contains modesty. This essay would possess a humble suggestion created to resolve a problem. The term “Modest” indicates a positive connotation implying that this plan will be morally correct and have a contributive impact.
Introduction and definition of the problem
• What is the problem, and to what extent is it a problem? What information leads you to your conclusion?
The lower class of children of Ireland are an economic burden to their parents, which eventually harms the country as a whole. The reader can conclude this as the …show more content…
The same acquaintance proposes another idea relating to Swift’s, which includes eating young adults instead of infants; however, the author resists this suggestion. The author reveals that his American friend conveyed to him that the meat in teenagers is tough adding reinforcement to Swift’s reasoning for refusing the idea, which again destroys the previous endorser’s reliability. However, the endorsements also helped the essay as the American friend provided additional positive support by simply being American because he symbolizes that Ireland was not the only place facing tyranny from England and expressing that infants create a formal meal. As a result, the people are less likely to accept the author’s absurd plan because the endorsements are unreliable, but in some instances, they still help the proposal.
Advantages
• What are some of the principal advantages of the proposal?
The author reveals six major advantages of the proposal, which include the decline of Paptists who attempt to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender in England, the poor possessing valuable goods allowing a better life, and stock in the economy increasing to fifty thousand pounds per annum. In addition, breeders profit money as they sell their children after one year and no longer have to maintain them, a new custom is created as taverns create new recipes for the dish, …show more content…
He reveals that the children are the reason for the nation’s economic downfall and proves this by indicating that the poor infants either hurt society when they grow up because they will commit wrongful decisions as they were predetermined by their degraded childhood or harm their parents because they prevent them from having employment and earning money. However, through an understanding of satire, the real problem is the British government, Irish politicians, and the wealthier class. Swift expresses that an advantage of his solution would be adding more beef in the form of human meat for its exports to England; implying that since this tyrannical country is taking all of Ireland’s food, they might as well eat their babies. The politicians and the rich are indifferent as they refuse to address the issues in Ireland plunging the population into poverty. The author sarcastically expresses, “therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children,” implying a direct attack towards them, indicating that he is exercising Juvenalian satire. Throughout the speech, Swift applies incongruity, which can be concluded because the idea of consuming infants in a Protestant dominated country is absurd. Exaggeration is also applied as the reader can observe that eating infants to decrease a population is extreme. However, this is
• What does the title suggest to you? From the title, what do you expect this essay to be about? The title of this essay implies that the paper will be a proposition on a certain situation that contains modesty. This essay would possess a humble suggestion created to resolve a problem. The term “Modest” indicates a positive connotation implying that this plan will be morally correct and have a contributive impact.
Introduction and definition of the problem
• What is the problem, and to what extent is it a problem? What information leads you to your conclusion?
The lower class of children of Ireland are an economic burden to their parents, which eventually harms the country as a whole. The reader can conclude this as the …show more content…
The same acquaintance proposes another idea relating to Swift’s, which includes eating young adults instead of infants; however, the author resists this suggestion. The author reveals that his American friend conveyed to him that the meat in teenagers is tough adding reinforcement to Swift’s reasoning for refusing the idea, which again destroys the previous endorser’s reliability. However, the endorsements also helped the essay as the American friend provided additional positive support by simply being American because he symbolizes that Ireland was not the only place facing tyranny from England and expressing that infants create a formal meal. As a result, the people are less likely to accept the author’s absurd plan because the endorsements are unreliable, but in some instances, they still help the proposal.
Advantages
• What are some of the principal advantages of the proposal?
The author reveals six major advantages of the proposal, which include the decline of Paptists who attempt to deliver the kingdom to the Pretender in England, the poor possessing valuable goods allowing a better life, and stock in the economy increasing to fifty thousand pounds per annum. In addition, breeders profit money as they sell their children after one year and no longer have to maintain them, a new custom is created as taverns create new recipes for the dish, …show more content…
He reveals that the children are the reason for the nation’s economic downfall and proves this by indicating that the poor infants either hurt society when they grow up because they will commit wrongful decisions as they were predetermined by their degraded childhood or harm their parents because they prevent them from having employment and earning money. However, through an understanding of satire, the real problem is the British government, Irish politicians, and the wealthier class. Swift expresses that an advantage of his solution would be adding more beef in the form of human meat for its exports to England; implying that since this tyrannical country is taking all of Ireland’s food, they might as well eat their babies. The politicians and the rich are indifferent as they refuse to address the issues in Ireland plunging the population into poverty. The author sarcastically expresses, “therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children,” implying a direct attack towards them, indicating that he is exercising Juvenalian satire. Throughout the speech, Swift applies incongruity, which can be concluded because the idea of consuming infants in a Protestant dominated country is absurd. Exaggeration is also applied as the reader can observe that eating infants to decrease a population is extreme. However, this is