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During the eighteenth and nineteenth century the population of the world hit a rising spike which left many people looking for solutions to this problem. A man by the name of Jonathan Swift wrote an essay entitled, “A Modest Proposal”, which contained his ideals of how to deal with the growth in population. Though his essay was titled “modest” it was far from it, the essay included many morbid and down-right gross ideas of how to deal with the population increase. Swift mainly focused his ideas on his homeland of Ireland where the poor were outnumbering the wealthy and mothers with their children on the streets begging. Swift’s ideas were more of a way to make fun of the wealthy and the situation that the poor were living in. At the beginning of Swift’s essay, the essay was supposed to open the eyes of the reader to a wide arrange of emotions, and the way that he used satire to show the needs of the poor. The essay was written with tones of humor at the beginning but towards the end, Swift takes a more serious way of conceiving his readers to be more charitable towards the poor. 

Here is a link that talks about the eighteenth century population increases and its culture at the time: http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kishlansky_cw_6/35/9181/2350389.cw/index.html