LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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its mocking tone.
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its absurd response to a real issue.
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its sentimental plea to its audience.
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its attempt to shock readers into acting.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the essay, Swift offers a satirical solution to the problem of Irish poverty and oppression. He suggests that Irish parents raise their children to the age of one year (after all, the first year doesn’t cost too much) and then sell them to their English landlords as food.
Detailed explanation-2: -Just what was Jonathan Swift’s “Modest Proposal” to fix this problem? Eat the children. Seriously. In this inflammatory, satirical essay, Swift proposes that the starving poor of Ireland sell their excess children to the rich as food.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: The characteristics of satire are evident in “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift. The author is making fun of the way people think and act. He uses irony, sarcasm, and exaggeration to make his point.
Detailed explanation-4: -Satire and Sincerity. Colonialism, Greed, and Inhumanity. Society, Rationality, and Irrationality. Misanthropy (Hatred of Humankind)