1. The real thesis is that he thinks that England should treat Ireland better because the lives of the Irish people would be better off being killed.
2. I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remain one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents.
3. The reader finds out this is an ironic essay at the end of the last paragraph.
4. The attacks are directed to Englanders and not only are they to blame but the Irish are to blame also because they need to solve some of their own problems.
5. No it does not just function as a satirical attack. Yes swift presents logical proposals that the end of the paper
6. The last paragraph of this paper is to show that he doesn’t want to eat babies but there is a real problem in Ireland that he is bring attention to.
