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A modest proposal

The text was written by Jonathan Swift

The text was written 1729

The text is a satire that ridicules the heartless attitude towards the poor. The purpose was to shed light on the dire situation

It’s called the enlightenment because people were encouraged to question everything

As a result science became much more popular

Literature changed to please the middle class, novels became popular because they were easy to read and the middle class could relate to the characters

Yes, it’s an easy to read book about an ordinary person’s everyday life

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The Enlightenment

a) Who wrote A Modest Proposal?

Jonathan Swift

b) When was it written?

1729

c) What was it and what was its purpose?

A modest proposal is a satire in which he makes suggestions to help the poor people in Ireland in ridiculous ways. The problems he describe is real but Jonathan wanted to make fun of them to show how the goverment not taking the serious poverty issue for real. He wanted to grab the goverment attention, and by writing this essay he hoped that it would spread and people would go together and make the goverment take action on the big issue.

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a) Jonathan Swift
b) 1729
c) Preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public.

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a) Who wrote A Modest Proposal?
Jonathan Swift
b) When was it written?
1729
c) What was it and what was its purpose?
It's a way of preventing the children of poor people prom being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public

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1. Read the text about The Enlightenment and answer all the questions.

2. Watch the short film below and after that find out;
a) Who wrote A Modest Proposal?
b) When was it written?
c) What was it and what was its purpose?