Delicious

A Modest Proposal is a great piece of literature, and the use of the cannibalism of the poor helped me really pay attention to detail because it was such a wild idea. I just realized that Mike Myers as fat basterd was Irish and that declaring babies as the “other white meat” could have had a little more depth than I originally thought. Swift uses the piece to illustrate that the Irish are all ready being consumed by the British in a more literal sense saying, “they have already devoured most of the Parents”. He goes on later to state that the Irish are in such a dire state that they might as well be dead and that cannibalism and the chance to make a buck is an improvement. By using the most unconventional idea, he is able to be radical and sarcastic but also able to say things he might not have said. He is categorizing the nobles as people who care not about the lives of the poor, and that eating them would be fine alternative to giving them money. In the text Swift reaffirms that the Noble would be fine with this, well unless they where teenagers because that would be border lining on cruelty and they wouldn’t taste good anyways. Great literature and Great Idea!