Question

How does the following quote develop the narrator’s point of view?: “I desire those politicians who dislike my overture… that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food, at a year old in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes as they have since gone through by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of entailing the like or greater miseries upon their breed for ever.” (Paragraph 32)

Answer 1

In a Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift the narrator  does not really refer to  morals or passses judgements.He is not concened with teaching ethics. He just makes outrageous suggestions about selling babies for cash.

This is a satire and  works only if the readers figure out themselves  whether eating babies is wrong. Instead of telling people what to do. Swift lets them make their own decisions thus developing his own point of view.