A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal is Jonathan Swift's devastating satirical essay, narrated by a coolly rational economist who presents a stomach-turning solution to Irish poverty: selling one-year-old infants as food for the wealthy. With each numbered "advantage" and calculated figure, the narrator's cheerful logic grows more monstrous — and Swift's fury at English colonial exploitation of Ireland grows impossible to ignore. The horror never comes from outrage but from the proposal's eerie reasonableness, as real remedies are dismissed one by one in favour of the unspeakable.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ririro-com-short-stories--6577582/support.