A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
Which passage shows Swift’s feelings about the wealthy upper classes through the use of satire?
A.) “I have reckoned upon a medium, that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and within a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increaseth to twenty-eight pounds.”
B.) "They cannot get work and consequently pine away for want of nourishment to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not the strength to to perform it…”
C.) "I grant that this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the peasants, seem to have the best title to the children.”
D.) "Then as to the females, it would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the public because they soon would become breeders themselves.
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