Answer:
Swift's overall purpose for writing the satirical essay "A Modest Proposal" is to draw attention to extreme poverty in Ireland and encourage reform.
Explanation:
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift is a social critic about the poverty in Ireland, and the possibilities to solve the situation, the general concept is to make people aware of the real conflict through a satirical and sarcastic proposal as eating little kids in order to avoid poverty in the country and to solve the lack of food.
