A Recipe for Murder In his essay “ A Modest Proposal” Jonathan Swift adopts the persona of an economist who is making a proposal of how to make Ireland a better place by getting rid of all of the orphan and pauper children. Through his use of Juvenalian Satire, Swift uses this type of cold-hearted, money minded businessman, to make a convincing argument as he explains the benefits this proposal would bring Ireland if followed, but …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…of their children. I ask you, what kind of mother could nurse her child for a year and sell it to be slaughtered? Works Cited Harris, Robert. “Juvenalian Satire.” A Glossary of Literary Terms and a Handbook of Rhetorical Devices. Online. 13 June 2001 http://www.uky.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~scaife/terms?File=1aglt.html&isindex=Juvenalian+Satire Swift, Jonathan. “A Modest Proposal.” Literature for Composition. 5th ed. Eds. Sylvan Barnet et al. New York: Longman, 2000. 172-178.