Around 1720-1730, the amount of poor and starving families had become a serious problem that needed tending to. In 1729, Jonathan Swift wrote a satirical essay that utilizes sarcasm and exaggeration to explain and ridicule the poor treatment of Irish by wealthy Englishmen. The essay focuses on placing blame on the prosperous protestants of England for the lack of wealth in catholic Irishmen. Janet Grayson from Keene State College agrees that the “attack was ultimately leveled against England, and not Ireland.”55 Around this time, three fourths of Irish property was owned by catholics in England. These land owning men used the poor of Irish to tend their fields for incredibly low wages. In order for Jonathan Swift to convey the need for change, it is necessary for him to incite people into action by amusing them with humorous elements of satire rather than angering them with opinions. He uses grossly exaggerated circumstances to drive his point home and create imagery in the mind of the reader that will further his point about the need for change. The entirety of the essay involves swift’s assumption that eating the meat and using the hide of small Irish children will cure the majority of problems that Ireland is having. In Swift’s essay, he cites the Papists as the root of the problems. By eating their children, Swift believes that “the number of Papists” would decrease, while at the same time comparing the English protestants to “dangerous enemies.”143-145 The main point in this is that Swift clearly points the blame at Englishmen and formulates the idea that by defeating this enemy, the problem will be solved all together. Irony is being used because he is calling the Papists, which are suppose to be holy and righteous, dangerous enemies that are breeders of evil. The secondary point he is making is that by forcing the Irish into becoming a people that non one wants anything to do with, the English may leave