ows in calf, orsows when they are ready to farrow, nor offer to beat or kick them." Onceagain the poor are being compared to animals and I doubt men will takebetter care of their wives if they will sell the baby eventually.There were some calculations made that caught my attention. Thesecalculations are somewhat disgusting as well as satirical. Families wouldbe consumers of infant flesh at merry meetings, particularly weddings andchristenings. We are told that families will celebrate the introduction ofa family and a christening of a child by eating some poor person's baby.The narrator then lists several ideas that could be used as aremedy. Possibly to try to make his proposal seem sane. His ten proposalsare not erratic. They are modest but far to radical for the rich people.They would never allow these ideas to be put into use. The babies are then being referred to as useless mouths and backsto clothe and their parents as creatures in human figures. The narratordoes not even consider them to be human. According to him, they look likepeople but do not live like people. The narrator even goes as far assaying the parents should be asked if they would have preferred to havebeen sold for food at a year old. Who in their right mind would want to beeaten? Yet he tells us that the parents would have been in favor of it.The narrator commented on how he has no other motive than thepublic good for his country but his country does not include everybody.Only the rich and those who can take care and support themselves.I think that Jonathan Swift tried to show how terrible the poorwere treated. Everyone was to busy to help them. He compared them toanimals and referred to them as creatures. I think he did this to showwhere their society was heading. The rich simply did not care about whathappened to the poor and they were literally eating them out of house andhome. Jonathan Swift wrote this satirical essay so the people would ...
