Question

I have been assured by a very knowing american of my acquaintance in london, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and i make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust. why did swift most likely deliver his proposal in a casual manner? to highlight to the reader that the government would likely agree with his plan to emphasize that he is serious about implementing his plan to show the reader that his plan is reasonable and no cause for alarm to grab the reader’s attention by using understatement to talk about brutal acts

Answer 1

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist and political pamphleteer and poet. He wrote and anonymously published the pamphlet called "A Modest Proposal for Preventing The Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick."

Swift most likely delivered his proposal in a casual manner to grab the reader's attention by using understatement to talk about brutal acts.This is the most likely option due to the fact that Swift used satire regularly in his pamphlets. Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize people's vices and corruptions, most of the times in the context of contemporary politics.

Answer 2

to grab the reader’s attention by using understatement to talk about brutal acts... i hope this helps