Question

According to the study, why did Jonathan Swift question his contemporaries' assumptions about English superiority? A. He thought that every man and woman of every culture should be treated equally. B. He believed all human beings were corrupt, no matter where they were born. C. He met the Yahoos and learned that human beings were incapable of reason. D. He traveled up the Congo River in Africa and saw the amazing cultures there firsthand.

Answer 1

B. He believed all human beings were corrupt, no matter where they were born.

Step-by-step explanation:

A Modest Proposal, by Jonathan Swift, is presumably the most acclaimed satirical exposition in the English language.

The paper starts as an apparently impartial analysis of the extreme poverty in eighteenth-century Ireland. With nary a move in tone, the writer uncovers his cure: Render the children of the poor as food for the table.

The offspring of Ireland ought to be sold and devoured, for the sustenance of the down and out, as delights for the affluent, and for the general advancement of society. The writer continues to outfit ironically logical reasons in support of this shocking and repulsive proposal.