Question

Read the excerpt from Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and answer the question. Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither cloaths, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country . . . : Of quitting our animosities and factions . . . : Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. In this excerpt, Swift briefly drops the satirical mask to reveal _____.

Answer 1

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important lessons from Ireland's past

real solutions for Ireland's poverty-stricken

further uses of the poor for Ireland's benefit

long-held grudges against Ireland's government

Answer:

real solutions for Ireland's poverty-stricken

Explanation:

In "A Modest Proposal" Swift presents a strong critique of the situation of the poor in Ireland and the irresponsibility of the government and the rich people towards them. This criticism is made in an extremely sarcastic and ironic way, however, Swift recognizes, the time to be serious within his text and does this in the paragraph shown above, reporting actions that can really minimize, if not decrease, the situation of the poor in the country.