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Position:Home>Books & Authors> In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", is he making fun of the iQuestion: In Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", is he making fun of the idea or does he actually believe in it!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Dean Swift was satirizing the prejudice against Irish immigrants to England with his "modest proposal"--his idea--to cook and eat the surplus Irish babies, was never meant as a real proposal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com He meant it and also attempted to practice it, upon his own numerous Irish Catholic children!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It is intended as satire and irony!. That is the general critical consensus!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Neither!. It's satire!.Www@QuestionHome@Com No, he's being ironic and sarcastic about it!.Www@QuestionHome@Com uh!. i'm pretty sure he's not seriously suggesting that people eat babies!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |