Want and Modest Proposal
Assignment: Analyzing Satire
In the chart below describe the problems the author of “A Modest Proposal” associates with each group listed. Next, explain the author’s solution to the problem and in the final column, describe the supposed “benefits” which will result from the implementation of this “modest proposal.”
Babies|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
He says infants are "grossly mistaken in their Computation." They are no good to the population.|"I propose to provide for them in such a Manner, as, instead of being a Charge upon their Parents, or the Parish, or wanting Food and Raiment for the rest of their Lives; they shall, on the contrary, contribute to the Feeding, and partly to the Cloathing, of many Thousands." He wil make them to use, by making clothing and working at the age of one.|It will bring the rate of aborstion and infanticides down. To help the mother with the shame of their chidlren.|
Children Ages 12-14|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
They are useless to humanity. More wealthy people would want older children, mainly girls.|Have their parents give them up and we sell them their skin and whatever else they would want.|More money and less children. They wont be able to breed anymore.|
Elderly, Maimed, or Ill|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
They have no use in the kingdom, can not do anymore.|Their dying anyway, let us use their bodies as selling items.|Less on the streets and more carcass to sell.|
Write a paragraph in which you describe the ACTUAL solution which Swift wants to be implemented.
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I believe that he has the right idea of wanting to get the poor off the streets. He definitely went about it in the completley wrong way! Which is why people showed such hatred and confusion by his proposal. He really just wants to decrease the rate of reproduction in Ireland and help business grow. Like I said, I am not in anyway agreeing with what he is proposing, he just needs to go about it in a different way. If he were to
In the chart below describe the problems the author of “A Modest Proposal” associates with each group listed. Next, explain the author’s solution to the problem and in the final column, describe the supposed “benefits” which will result from the implementation of this “modest proposal.”
Babies|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
He says infants are "grossly mistaken in their Computation." They are no good to the population.|"I propose to provide for them in such a Manner, as, instead of being a Charge upon their Parents, or the Parish, or wanting Food and Raiment for the rest of their Lives; they shall, on the contrary, contribute to the Feeding, and partly to the Cloathing, of many Thousands." He wil make them to use, by making clothing and working at the age of one.|It will bring the rate of aborstion and infanticides down. To help the mother with the shame of their chidlren.|
Children Ages 12-14|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
They are useless to humanity. More wealthy people would want older children, mainly girls.|Have their parents give them up and we sell them their skin and whatever else they would want.|More money and less children. They wont be able to breed anymore.|
Elderly, Maimed, or Ill|
Problem:|Solution:|Benefits:|
They have no use in the kingdom, can not do anymore.|Their dying anyway, let us use their bodies as selling items.|Less on the streets and more carcass to sell.|
Write a paragraph in which you describe the ACTUAL solution which Swift wants to be implemented.
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I believe that he has the right idea of wanting to get the poor off the streets. He definitely went about it in the completley wrong way! Which is why people showed such hatred and confusion by his proposal. He really just wants to decrease the rate of reproduction in Ireland and help business grow. Like I said, I am not in anyway agreeing with what he is proposing, he just needs to go about it in a different way. If he were to