Historically, Ireland suffered from famine and overpopulation problems during the 18th century due to the British parliament gaining the right to legislate over Ireland. The British Parliament's right to legislate in turn created and made way for great poverty for those living in Ireland. During this period of the eighteenth century, many individuals would have believed that overpopulation and poverty, or people and the economy, were one and the same; that it was natural for people to become part of the economy. In modern society, however, the traditional way of thinking is that individuals and the economy must be separated. Jonathan Swift, however, offers a contrary and satirical solution to these problems. Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish satirist, writes a youth satire that provides a British approach by proposing to solve the fate of the poverty-stricken Irish by selling poor children as food for the rich in his essay “A Modest Proposal”. Swift's essay is a manifestation of the idea that Irish citizens were denied their natural human rights by England, dehumanizing them and considering them a mere form of commodity. It focuses on how English politics depletes Ireland's resources and exploits the people who live there. Through Swift's proposal, he complicates the notion of the political and economic issues of the time by introducing our modern idea of ​​human rights by making the absurdity of his proposal literal so as to make us feel disgusted. In essence, he is suggesting that the English and the wealthy Irish landowners are causing the poverty and misery of the population. During this period of the eighteenth century, when Swift wrote his proposal, it was very common for society t.... ..middle of paper......allowing exploitation, poverty, overpopulation and the lack of human rights for Irish citizens. In his piece he uses several satirical and persuasive devices to show the cultural and historical reason behind what was happening in the century. Although his essay was written many years ago, it is an essay that modern society can come to agreement with after digging beneath the surface. It makes us feel disgusted by what he writes about because it touches on the political climate and history we come from, allowing us to form our own opinions about what is moral and immoral to propose for the problems of poverty and overpopulation in this time. period. Although Swift titled her essay A Modest Proposal, it was indeed an immodest proposal that brought to light the dire situations that needed to be faced and changed..