Consider the following passage:
I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.
Why might Swift have included this passage?
ATo criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor
BTo show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock
CTo show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person
DAll of the above
I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine.
Why might Swift have included this passage?
ATo criticize a certain way of thinking about the poor
BTo show that the narrator thinks of the children of the poor as a kind of livestock
CTo show the reader that the narrator is not a decent person
DAll of the above