Human beings are selfish in nature, we think about our needs and desires and how we can advance in society without taking into consideration the well-being of others. Sometimes it takes a little push from an outside source to put things into perspective. In Voltaire's Candide and Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, humans are depicted in this same light, as greedy and vulgar. The author's intentions are to portray amoral ideas to cause readers to question their morals. The very fact that the authors believe that their audience can be moved to take moral stands demonstrates their optimistic point of view. According to the novel, Jonathan Swift believes that children in Ireland have no purpose in society and are the ones who are destroying the economy. . A modest proposal is essentially an attempt to "find a fair, cheap and easy method" of converting starving Irish children into "healthy and useful members of the Commonwealth". All over Ireland poor children live in filth and misery because their families are too poor to keep them fed and fed...