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Jonathan Swift 1280px-Jonathan_Swift_by_Charles_Jervas_detail (From…

- - - - unveil society problems
  - - - canterbury tales
- - - - short satire
      - ancient vs modern literature
    - - irony and bitterness
      - sell irish children as food for british men
        
        solution to poverty
      - pamphlet
  - - - description of a fake reality in refer of areal one
        
        england is still the focus
        
        very organized society
        
        institutions
        
        voice to the lost of civilization
        
        corruption
    - - lilliput
        
        tiny people (6 inch)
        
        ridiculization of brit monarchy
      - Brobdingnag
        
        giants
        
        entertain the king illustrating english customs
        
        king horrified by weapons
      - laputa
        
        floating island in the skies
        
        people are busy only on philosophical abstactions
        
        forgets about the rest of the world
        
        illuminism
        
        exagerated use of reason
      - Hoyhnhnms
        
        ultimate level
        
        noble horses
        
        mastered balance between reason and nature
        
        established wisdom
        
        contrast with yahoos
        
        human-like figures
        
        against age of reason
        
        man high and animals wild
    - - change of personality
        
        disgusted by humans
        
        prefers company of horses
- - - - boicot of english imports
- - - - man an animal with reason