These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Through his satiric persona he exposes the underlying causes of Ireland’s desperate circumstances while parodying the many fatuous and ill-informed “proposals” for a solution to Ireland’s ills being circulated at the time, often written by people who had little personal knowledge of the country and no genuine concern for its inhabitants. Reversing the age-old stereotype of the Irish as cannibals fostered in English writings, Swift depicts a situation in which the Irish are the devoured rather than the devourers, though not entirely blameless for their plight.
Perhaps the best-known and most often cited satire in the English language, this work was in part a response to the serious famine, resulting from the failure of the corn crop, that had ravaged the country in the preceding months, which worsened an already dire economic situation and brought questions of food and consumption (or their lack) to the forefront of national consciousness.
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