What are the expedients in a modest proposal?

The clueless narrator of “A Modest Proposal” lists some other “expedients” (solutions) to the problem of poverty after he has outlined his own proposal in great detail. His proposal is to fatten, kill, and sell for food the infants of the poor when they are a year old.

What is the main problem in a modest proposal?

The speaker describes the problem of poverty in Ireland, which he attributes to the lack of opportunities to earn money.

What are the main points of a modest proposal?

The main idea of the actual story has to do with decreasing the overpopulation by selling babies as food. Swift suggests that the wealthy purchase the infants of the poor and serve them as a delicacy. He gives specific details which are designed to disgust and enrage the reader.

What is the purpose of satire in a modest proposal?

The purpose of Swift’s “Modest Proposal” is, first, to expose people’s attitudes (particularly those in power) toward the poverty in Ireland and, second, for the author to give his own opinion on the situation. Swift does this by combining realism with irony, absurdity, and parody.

Which sentence from a modest proposal is the best example of satire?

Answer: b) thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child. This is an example of satire.

What group is targeted negatively but indirectly?

English Lords as well as known as Wealthy English Protestants are being targeted negatively by Swift. Explanation: “A modest proposal” is written by Jonathan Swift who was an Anglo Irish essayist and a poet. It is a satirical pamphlet.

At what point in the essay did you recognize that Swift’s proposal is meant to be satirical?

At what point in the essay did you recognize that Swift’s proposal is meant to be satiric? It is at paragraph eight that the reader would begin to realize that this essay is satirical.