In swifts Modest Proposal, he leaves us with a surprise ending that he does not gain anything economically since he has no children that can be sold in meat markets. This surprise is identical when swift suggests that children should be sold to meat places as it would boost the Irish economy and have new recipes in their menu. This creates surprise as swift had to consistently eat or sell his children if they lived in Ireland.
In his surprise ending, swift was successful in convincing as he had already calculated on the age, price and weight of the children to be sold. Also in his proposal he argued that chefs could improve their culinary skills as there would be new meat in their recipe. Similarly, swift gives a surprise ending as he uses the catholic religion as satire when he uses “papist” word used by anti-Catholics to reject pope. By being stereotypic on Catholics, he argues that young infants were not able to steal which implied that it was a common practice of the Irish catholic.
Generally, swift uses satire in his modest proposal as it is unbelievable in what he was proposing such as selling and eating babies. Suggestions such as using carcasses of the infants to be used as women gloves and clothing also creates prejudices against the poor. Also by his declaration that landlords “devoured” the unable parents depicts that the wealthy lived on the expense of the poor. Swift uses the rich as satire to show how disconnected they were from the poor that would agree with his outlandish