Apparently, it resulted to a lot of economic criticisms and opinions from his audiences. He expressed his ideas through writing “A Modest proposal” which depicts the mockery of the Irish dilemma that suggests the idea of eating the poor children by the rich people. The issue then was raised by Jonathan Swift at 1729 who has been actively voicing out his own opinions about what he believed. So basically, the difficulties during the year the essay was written by Swift, has been in the side of poverty amongst the people of Ireland. This has been an issue ever since and the people had no control over it. A lot of beggars were scattered all over the place and mostly they were females (Gubar 381).
Also, one author said that they have no freedom to vote and choose a protestant partner. Religious issues also came in when the Catholics were discriminated by not allowing them to fight for themselves even for protection purposes only. The power of the new King brought chaos to the country as it caused many corruptions and abnormalities when it comes to running the system. Almost seventy percent of the whole population of Ireland was made up of Irish Catholics however English protestant was the one who dominated the country because of the death of King William III had turn out to be down when King James II took the place of the previous ruler. When the essay was written in the era of about 1710 up to 1745, Ireland was largely composed of Catholics. It tackled about the suggestion of practicing cannibalism by the Irish.
His work “A Modest Proposal” was written during 1729 and appeared to be one of the most admired satirical essays in the English language.
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