If you would like to finish reading Jonathan Swift's satirical essay about solving the poverty and overpopulation problems of Ireland, click here to read "A Modest Proposal."
If you didn't get a chance to share your ideas about Swift's proposal in class today, click on the comments for this blog post. You may wish to comment about how Swift connects to the concepts that we are exploring as part of the Atwood and Austen unit. Those concepts are sexism, oppression, religious fanaticism, censorship, civil liberties, utopias and men & women in love.
One of three epigraphs to The Handmaid’s Tale:
But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success, I fortunately fell upon this proposal . . .
--Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal
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