Vanessa Villamizar

In this essay I am going to talk about how the values of fairness and justice are applied to the story of “A modest proposal” by Jonathan Swift. The point of this author in his essay is to confront the Irish society with the working and living conditions of the less fortunate of Ireland. This essay is wiring with satire and with what we call “black humor”. Most of the people who read this story didn’t really understand that it wasn’t literal so this lead to a lot of bad critics. The values of justice and fairness are not really applied to the story if we see the story in a way of critique, for example how can we see fairness if in the story the proposal of the author is that poor people to reduce overpopulation are almost obligated to sell their babies to people with a lot of money for them to eat their children, this wouldn’t be fair because fairness is basically treating people in a way who is right or reasonable and clearly selling a baby for people to eat it isn’t right and it is k