Tuesday, January 7, 2014

What are three advantages the speaker claims for his proposal?

'A modest Proposal' is a satirical esay by Jonathan Swift
published in1729.In the essay Swift appears to suggest that the impoverished Irish might
ease their economic troubles by selling their childern as food for rich English  ladies
and gentlemen.


a young healthy child well-nourished is a
most


delicious and wholesome food, whether
stewed


roasted, baked or
boiled...


By doing so the childern will not only cease to
be a burden to their poor parents but also fetch them some bucks.Secondly the landlords
and ladies will get to eat wholesome and nutritious
food.


The readers unacquainted with its reputation as a
satirical work are often taken in by the mockserious irony as they fail to realize that
Swift was not proposing cannibalism and infanticide but poking fun at the British
authorities who stifled the Irish economy with severe
restrictions.


The essay is widely held to be one of the
greatest examples of irony in the history of English Literature.

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