A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
A Modest Proposal (pls can i get some help)
- Having rambled a bit, Swift returns to summarize the advantages of his proposal. Relate his summary of arguments.
A Modest Proposal" purports to address the problems of poverty and overpopulation in Ireland with a simple economic solution: the Irish should eat their babies when the infants become one year old. While some serious alternatives are provided, the piece at least involves a humorous method of getting people thinking about the real issues and how they might be solved in a way other than cannibalism.