• "A Modest Proposal" is an essay that uses satire to mae its point. A satire is a literary work that attacks or pokes fun at vices, abuses, stupidity, and/or any other fault or imperfection. A satire critisizes someone or something, using wit and clever wording.

Jonathan Swift wrote "A Modest Proposal" to call attention to abuses inflicted on irish Catholics by well-to-do English Protestants. Because the whole point of this writing was to pin point a certain problem and point out the abuses and conflict this makes this writing considerd a satire.

A satire simply is having one subject in a piece of writing and in that writing your pointing out everything on that subject. You may be critisizing it, complimenting it, abusing basically just writing anything but about that subject. So yes, this particular piece of writing "A Modest Proposal" does qualify as a satire.