A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

Modest Proposal

What does the following line mean, in context? “One male will be sufficient to serve four females.” What attitude is this helping to reveal in our narrator?

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In context, serving females would mean to father their children. This helps to reveal the writer's cold, demeanor..... he satirically refers to the subjects of his essay as if they're animals to be bred.

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