Answer:
The reading of 'A Modest Proposal' by the young narrator in Angela's Ashes is significant as it supports the claim of political cynisism and religious negligence of people in need.
Swift shows the indifference of English Commonwealth towards Irish poor by viewing them as inferior and doing absolutely nothing to improve their situation.
According to Swift, Irish are partially responsible for their situation because they did not do anything to improve their own condition and they allowed it to remain the same.
Explanation:
'Angela's Ashes' is an immigrant memoir of Frank McCourt. The narrator of the book is a young boy, and the author himself, Frank.
In the book, the young narrator, aged 10, reads 'A Modest Proposal' written by Jonathan Swift in the eighteenth-century. The reading of this essay by the young narrator is significant as it reflects the grim solution by Swift to Irish poverty-- eating the children. In the novel, malnutrition is displayed as the major cause of death and the grim solution of it was provided by Swift in the eighteen-century in his essay 'A Modest Proposal.'
The essay by Swift presents the gruel reality of political cynisism and religious negligence. The English Commonwealth were ruthless towards Irish poor and viewed them as inferior and did not do anyything to help them and their starving conditions.
Swift considered Irish to be partially responsible for their condition because they themselves did not do anything to improve their condition instead they dwelled on it and allowed it to remain the same.
