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essay N.2

·          FAIRNESS/JUSTICE APPLIED TO: A MODEST PROPOSAL ·            To understand the relation between the essay a modest proposal and the values fairness and justice the definition of these words must be clear; fairness is to treat or behave without discrimination or favoritism and justice is the quality of being just or the system by which people are judged in courts of law and criminals are punished. The essay a modest proposal is based on money and is basically about poor people. Relating the values with Jonathan swift who is the author of the essay, he suggests a shocking solution to the problem, but, this solution is not related at all with fairness or justice and the essay neither. An example of this is that mothers were not able to work so instead of working they were forced to beg for their helpless infants and that is not fair. This values are not found in the essay because even if swift had the intention to help and he was looking for a solution he didn’t have in co