!) He mocks the English political and cultural invasion of Ireland. The thesis for Swift is the idea that human problems cannot be solved by rational thought by itself.
2) The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children,
there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born.
3) Most readers probably realize that he is using irony and writing satire when he actually reveals his "modest" proposal
4) The women of Ireland are the ones that are being victoms through irony in a way. The Irish as a people are both victoms and to blame
5) I think this whole thing is a serious solution and should be taken into consideration word for word. just kidding. but yeah there aren't any real solutions to anything anywhere.
6) To say that he isn't serious or a monster or a malevolent human.
7) i dunno. prolly not.
8) Well, first off, we'd have to have a secret sector in the FDA. then they would take care of brain washing us and whatnot and make it ok.
