A Recipe for Murder
A Recipe for Murder
In his essay “ A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift adopts the persona of an economist who is making a proposal of how to make Ireland a better place by getting rid of all of the orphan and pauper children. Through his use of Juvenalian Satire, Swift uses this type of cold-hearted, money minded businessman, to make a convincing argument as he explains the benefits this proposal would bring Ireland if followed, but …
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…of their children. I ask you, what kind of mother could nurse her child for a year and sell it to be slaughtered?
Works Cited
Harris, Robert. “Juvenalian Satire.” A Glossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices.
Online. 13 June 2001
http://www.uky.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~scaife/terms?File=1aglt.html&isindex=Juvenalian+Satire
Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” Literature for Composition. 5th ed. Eds. Sylvan Barnet et al. New
York: Longman, 2000. 172-178.
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