Question

What is the tone of "A Modest Proposal"? Consider it on the literal and satirical level. Your answer should be at least one hundred words. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

  The narrator's tone is sarcastic and cynical, with a heavy dose of irony. To demonstrate the absurdity of treating children like food and livestock, he uses a modest and reasonable tone while presenting his views, which helps establish the legitimacy of his proposals. Satirizing discourses that assess individuals in practical and economic terms, this "reasonable" tone satirizes.

  In his remarks, he provided many examples. "this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit an extended continuance in salt," or his statement that "saleable commodity", or later in the essay he states that "For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it."  People who transform humanity into cold economic ideas may be successfully satirized because of the tone. Although the argument is sound on a logical level, it is ethically repugnant.

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