A Modest Proposal A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public

Jonathan Swift
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Published anonymously in 1729, Jonathan Swift’s satirical essay, A Modest Proposal, puts forth the darkly comical idea that the starving poor of Ireland might alleviate their economic condition by selling their children as food for wealthy gentlemen and ladies.

At its core, Swift’s Modest Proposal satirizes English exploitation of Ireland in particular and the heartless attitude that rich elites can develop towards the poor in general. Along with Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal is an early English example of the black comedic genre.

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GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
December 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
24
Pages
PUBLISHER
HarperCollins Publishers
SELLER
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
SIZE
425.1
KB

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