During the 18th century, Ireland was facing a crisis. Ireland’s biggest problem was poverty. The famine, the English ruling over the Irish, an overwhelming number of Roman Catholics majoring Ireland’s population, and the Parliaments resulted poverty in Ireland. Jonathan Swift, was witness of the suffering of the people. He wanted to draw attention to the issue, thus he wrote ‘The Modest Proposal’. He addressed the rich and well-educated British landlords to aid the poor Irish. In the proposal, he describe famine that brought death and hunger and the unjust of the Irish and Roman Catholic giving unfair treatment. In 1845-1849, the Great Irish Famine that occurred when the potato crops failed in successive years. It was a struggle for the
