MODEST PROPOSAL

Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift

Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift

A Modest Proposal is considered one of the premium examples of satire in world literature. Written in the persona of a well-intentioned economist and published in the form of a well liked pamphlet, the tract argues that the problem of poverty in Ireland can best be remedied by selling the children of the poor as food for the wealthy. This outlandish thesis is a manifestation of Swift's outrage at what he glimpsed as the scandalous economic and political policies of the Irish and English governments, and the author uses the assumed voice ...