A Modest Proposal

Name: A Modest Proposal
Brand: Saga Egmont International
SKU: 9789176393413
Price: 5.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-9-176-39341-3

de Jonathan Swift (auteur)

Maison d'édition : Saga Egmont International

janvier 2017

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Résumé

In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a serious tone, the humour in this essay is undeniable, and so is its mocking of the heartless attitudes towards poor people.