Question

What group is targeted negatively but indirectly by swift in a modest proposal?

Answer 1

Wealthy Protestants is the answer

Answer 2

Answer:

"A Modest Proposal", a satirical pamphlet written by Anglo-Irish essayist and poet Jonathan Swift to point out Social class inequality and especially abuses inflicted by Wealthy English Protestants on Irish Catholics.

Satire is generally used to humorously and indirectly criticize and ridicule vices, abuses and shortcomings in society seeking for improvement.

Even though the author directly betake the Irish government, indirectly he lays out the quibble of England still exploiting Ireland, even 100 years later after the Anglo-Irish conflict that left Ireland in ruins by them.

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