s at a year old a most delicious, nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled". The proposer then also proceeds to provide the reader with numerous profitable reasons for complying with the proposal: the main advantages being to prevent voluntary abortions and infanticide but also reducing the abuse of women and children. The number of Papists would be reduced and the children will not become beggars, thieves or prostitutes. However the persona alone is inadequate to make the narrator seem too plausible so must utilise irony and wit in order for his proposal to become more efficacious. Also, The language of the modest proposer is that of dehumanisation; he can't talk about the proposal until he makes the children out to be non-hum
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