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Jonathan Swift, an Anglo-Irish poet, and essayist, famous for the use of satire to point out the downfalls of the British and Irish society in the 18th century; in "A Modest Proposal" Swift uses verbal irony to make his argument, pretending to be a Scientist, someone who epitomizes reason, with the purpose of ridiculing the Scientists of the Royal Society (the elite), and to highlight their incompetence, ruthlessness and total disregard for the social inequality dehumanizing the rest of the population at that time.