A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal is a story full of satire and irony focusing on England’s economic oppression and nonchalant attitude over Ireland during the early 1700s. His use of irony was his way to reach the people of England in hopes that they would offer a more feasible social plan that would benefit both the economies of Ireland and England, and more importantly, the people themselves. The Narrator in A Modest Proposal begins by first walking the reader down the streets of Dublin, Ireland, to illustrate the disheartening conditions of the Irish people and the burden they induce upon the Commonwealth. He appears to be a logical and educated man, who for many years has studied the problem and has come up with a plan to solve the overpopulation, and thus ending the economic woes of the country as well. His plan, though not traditional, would not be “confined to provide only for the children of pr
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Approximate Word count = 628
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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