A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

What is the purpose of the satire? What social ill is the author attempting to reform?

A Modest Proposal

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Swift's purpose in writing the essay was to expose the problems in Ireland and the part the British played in causing the extreme poverty that existed there. Unfair trade practices were a major cause of the problem.