... he has no children and therefore could not profit by selling them to be eaten. Analysis If you do not realize that this proposal is satirical, you have no sense of humor or irony. It is impossible to imagine a serious proposal for eating children. Yet, it is not enough simply to indulge one's outrage over ... arrogance. All people who could be classified as "other" are potentially dangerous to the English, needing to be tamed. "A Modest Proposal" is also literary commentary. Swift intended to parody similar pamphlets that were being circulated at the time. His diction throughout the piec...

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