A Modest Proposal

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All Themes Satire and Sincerity Colonialism, Greed, and Inhumanity Society, Rationality, and Irrationality Misanthropy (Hatred of Humankind)

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All Characters The Proposer George Psalmanazar The Pretender

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Satire and Sincerity
Colonialism, Greed, and Inhumanity
Society, Rationality, and Irrationality
Misanthropy (Hatred of Humankind)

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The Proposer
George Psalmanazar
The Pretender

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Eating

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Ethos
Genre
Irony
Logos
Mood
Motifs
Pathos
Satire
Setting
Situational Irony
Style
Tone
Unreliable Narrator
Verbal Irony

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