Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
Beginning of paper
. . .first ask the parents of these mortals whether they would not at this
day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old in
the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of
misfortunes as they have since gone through by the oppression of landlords ....
Middle of paper
.... in particular, that of
Jonathan Swift. How could a person, much less a group of people, be so
consumed by the pain of the sin-filled world that they could not feel any
of the magnificence with which God had created the world? In answering
this question, Swift discovered a series of social vices and injustices
that perpetuated the painful poverty of the Irish peasantry, and due to his
resulting anger felt that it was his God-given job to do something about
them. "'What I do is owing to per ....
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