Jonathan Swift is an influential author who successfully wrote various text, for example, Gulliver’s Travels and the Modest Proposal. In 1729 Ireland was impacted by the potato famine causing a devastating famine and poverty. The author Jonathan Swift in the Modest Proposal argues through dramatic iron and data to target the inhumane conditions irish live with dark humor. Swift establishes credibility through the usage of ironic date. The use of statistic makes the reader intrigued by his proposal. For example, Swift writes “...I calculate there maybe about 200,000 couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtracted 30,000…”. The use of data makes Swift knowledgeable of the occurrences with the Irish. But more specifically, Swift
