modest proposal

Read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” over the weekend, and respond to the following questions by class on Monday:

1. At what point in the opening paragraphs might a contemporary reader begin to suspect Swift’s insincerity; in other words, at what point might one suspect that Swift’s speaker does not represent the author’s real views?
2. What is Swift’s actual argument?

~ by cehret on 21 November 2008.