Jonathon Swift "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public," or, now simply known as "A Modest Proposal". ... Swift's proposal suggested Irish poverty would be solved by the sale of the poor stricken children for consumption. ... I found "A Modest Proposal" to be one of the amusing or all the works I have read in some time. ... Nevertheless, the thought that not only could poor Irish children be eaten, but also that they would be raised for eating is without doubt...

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• Grade Level: High School

In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift presents a literary work that attacks the vices of the English Protestants, Irish politicians, and even the naivety of the Irish themselves. ... By the use of Swift's figure of speech, satire, and intricate details in "A Modest Proposal," he writes of unreal remedies to the real problems that Ireland possesses as a whole. The central argument in A Modest Proposal is his proposal to the poor of Ireland to halt themselves from being a burden on their country and its families by subversively replacing their actions with that of his. ... The most assert...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the essay, "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, he declares his thesis about English landowners' treatment of the Irish. ... His proposals would "contribute to the feeding; and partly to the clothing, of many thousands" (492). ... He makes his proposal hoping no one objects, to sell one year old babies as food. ... Next, he lists the advantages to his proposal. ... I thought his proposal was cruel, unusual and disgusting but he did make his point....

• Word Count: 805
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• Grade Level: High School