A Modest Proposal

The Narrator in A Modest Proposal begins by first walking the reader down the streets of Dublin, Ireland, to illustrate the disheartening conditions of the Irish people and the burden they induce upon the Commonwealth. He appears to be a logical and educated man, who for many years has studied the problem and has come up with a plan to solve the overpopulation, and thus ending the economic woes of the country as well. His plan, though not traditional, would not be “confined to provide only for the children of pr

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The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. ] the mother will have eight shillings net profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child” (485), to defend the proposal. ] of our own inhumanity to our fellow human beings” (430).

Jonathan Swift felt it was his duty as a human being to convey to the English the horrific conditions of the Irish people and “to criticize the reader as representative of all who endure calmly the intolerable actuality in the world [. This list is offered to the reader to further justify the proposal on the basis of its economic and even moral benefits to Ireland and England.

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Approximate Word count = 628
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)

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