A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
A Modest Proposal
Why does Swift dismiss 14 year olds as good for food?
Why does Swift dismiss 14 year olds as good for food?
A friend of the narrator’s, “a very worthy person,” has already heard the proposal and suggested that children of fourteen, too, be a potential food. The writer has dismissed this idea, though, because the flesh of fourteen-year-old boys is too lean, and fourteen-year-old girls might soon become breeders of infants themselves.
A Modest Proposal