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Summary Of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

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Jonathan Swift’s satire writing, A Modest Proposal, portrays many different elements of the restoration period along with describing some of the social problems of this time period. Swift describes these problems as something that other people can relate to. Swift uses the idea of getting rid of some of the lower class people in the area and explains how it would benefit the government and the economy. This would only be beneficial if all of the beggars and homeless children would leave the country. This would then allow the government to fund the population’s basic necessities. The economy would eventually become great again allowing the government to fund more things. During this time period, many of the female sex were left out on the
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