A Modest Proposal: An Analysis

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person would
assume he intends to put them in factories or farms to work and not be on
the streets begging for food. We are also told that his plan will prevent
voluntary abortions and women murdering their bastard babies.

The narrator shows the reader he is serious by producing
calculations that appear to be well thought-out and then showing us,
through examples, That these children have no future.

Up to this point the narrator appears to be intelligent. He is
from the upper class and has low morals. He thinks lowly about the poor
but has made several logical assumptions and observations. He has us all
wondering what his proposal will be.

He then tells us that a young healthy child at a year old is a most
delicious, nourishing and wholesome food. The first thing that went
through everyone's mind is that this man is crazy. Cannibalism? That is
disgusting. Yet he continues on as if he said something completely
rational and sane. According to his ...

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would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a
good fat child. There is more satire here. What kind of gentleman eats a
child? The narrator goes on to tell us that he will be a good landlord and
grow popular among his tenants. There is some more satire presented to us.
The people will like the landlords for two reasons. One being that they
will be getting rid of their babies which they cannot afford. I do not
think the people will rejoice at having their babies eaten by their
landlords.

The narrator spoke to a worthy person, a true lover of his country,
who offered a refinement upon his scheme. He told him that the want of
venison might well be supplied by the ...

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