Barrow and Swift use different literary form to support their ideas about charity and generosity. Barrow uses sermon to persuade the rich people in his country to be charitable to the poor. Moreover, Barrow is being repetitive in his work, which is good because he wants to the readers to get his main ideas of being charitable to the poor, and he also relates charity to God and official Church of England. He emphasizes that being charitable will change God’s decisions on salvation and if you are not charitable you will be damned. His sermon also backed up by church’s doctrine, so the wealthy people of England believe on what Barrow stated. He stated that people were born equally, but economy in the world creates discrepancy between people, which he wants the poor also be equally recognized as a person and the poor can feel some luxuries that the rich people have. On the other hand Swift use ironic satire to mock about the careless attitude in his country, also he has gone to extreme on his proposal, giving nasty concept and illustration to draw people’s attention. In his work, he tells the poor family should sell their baby as food, because they will get money for it, and the burden of raising the children are gone. He also support his proposal by giving calculations of how much money the poor have to spend to raise a child and how much money will the family get for selling it. This sort of calculation supports his ideas that by following his proposal, poverty problem can logically be solved from Ireland.
Barrow and Swift works have some similarities, geographically they are in Europe and they have the same problem, which is poverty. But their problems have different reasons and backgrounds. England is caused by the increasing money of the wealthy people by trades and stocks, but in Ireland is caused by overpopulation, especially high number of children, which