Proposer & Audience

Jonathan Swift wrote “A Modest Proposal” to call attention to abuses inflicted on Irish Catholics by well-to-do English Protestants. Swift himself was a Protestant, but he was also a native of Ireland, having been born in Dublin of English parents. He believed England was exploiting and oppressing Ireland.
.......Many Irishmen worked farms owned by Englishmen who charged high rents—so high that the Irish were frequently unable to pay them. Consequently, many Irish farming families continually lived on the edge of starvation.
.......In “A Modest Proposal,” Swift satirizes the English landlords with outrageous humor, proposing that Irish infants be sold as food at age one, when they are plump and healthy, to give the Irish a new source of income and the English a new food product to bolster their economy and eliminate a social problem. He says his proposal, if adopted, would also result in a reduction in the number of Catholics in Ireland, since most Irish infants—almost all of whom were baptized Catholic—would end up in stews and other dishes instead of growing up to go to Catholic churches. Here, he is satirizing the prejudice of Protestants toward Catholics.
.......Swift also satirizes the Irish themselves in his essay, for too many of them had accepted abuse stoically rather than taking action on their own behalf.

Blog Assignment 3: Who is the "proposer"? Who is the audience? Explain.

In this "Modest Proposal" I think English Landlords are the proposers. I think this because it clealy states in the text that, " Swift satarizes that Enligh landlords with outrageous humor, proposes that Irish infants be sold as food at age one." Even though he's using satire, I would have taken it offensively .As for the audiance, I see them as everyone, meaning the people. This is a serious matter that I feel everyone should be against. Selling your own child to be eaten for money is unbelievable and I wouldn't agree with it at any given time, place or money crisis! No amount of money will ever have you take my child from me...EVER!!!