![]() It’s an easy money to get if their mother will bother begging or searching the food in trash piles. So one healthy child will cost less then two shillings. Actually they don’t demand anything except breastfeeding. While we are still reading the same words again, hoping that we misunderstood something, that the description of the weight of a one-year-old baby has nothing to deal with eating them - the author continues, proving his idea right in the ways that would make Dr. Maybe, free education, or feeding programs, or kindergartens, or… Swift is fairly realistic.īut then he, playing the same concerned citizen, proposes a simple yet very practical solution to make these kids useful for the society and country. And it was truth for that time - the description given by Dr. He starts from the description of poverty one can see in the streets of Dublin and depicts miserable lives of women, burdened with four, five or six children, who can neither work nor raise their kids properly, so they often become thieves, thugs, prostitutes or drug dealers. The full name is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.” and at the first glance it looks like an another petition from the overly concerned citizen who wants to improve the society. ![]() “A Modest Proposal” is a short satirical essay written by Jonathan Swift in the form of a pamphlet. ![]()
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