A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
What was the problem and solution in Swift's A Modest Proposal?
The problem and solution about the elderly, maimed or the ill.
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The problem and solution about the elderly, maimed or the ill.
The problem Swift approaches in 'A Modest Proposal' is poverty; his solution is that the people of Ireland eat the children of their country in order to reduce the population and feed the hungry.