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Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels
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Style:
Gulliver's experiences are in contrast. He narrates in first-person in a prose style which is matter-of-fact.
Satire:
Exaggeration. The reader sees something familiar that is brought to a disgusting level. The voyage theme opens many satirical possibilities. Gulliver's satire is also achieved by changing the perspective on human conduct.
Interpretation
The novel can be read as: a tale for children; a political allegory; a parody of voyage litterature; a masterpiece of misanthropy.
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Twentieth-century criticism:the approach to the Yahoos and Gulliver's conduct are a sort of "warning us"
Life:
Swift was born and educated in Dublin and returned to England during the "Glorious Revolution". He became the secretary of William Temple, who encouraged him to write his satires, so he wrote "The Battle of the Books" and "A Tale of a Tub". In 1694 he returned to Ireland and defended it from the Whig government, denouncing injustices with his pamphlets like "The Drapier's Letters". In 1726 he wrote the "Gulliver's Travels", where he ironically suggest to sell irish children as food to the rich to oppose to poverty. He died in 1745 and he was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral.
Style:
He uses irony, allegory and satire to create awareness and to denounce what he finds distasteful
He was one of the most controversial English writer and some critics thinks he's misanthrope. Defined as a monster or as a lover of mankind, he said that men are animals capable of reason.