A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift, or also known as "A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick," is a Juvenalian sarcastic essay written in 1729. The Essay mocks that selling children as food to the rich people may ease the economic troubles of the country. The heartless attitudes towards the poor and the British policy towards the Irish is ridiculed by Johnathan.
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