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JONATHAN SWIFT - Coggle Diagram
JONATHAN SWIFT
Jonathan Swift was born in 1667 in a wealthy family in Dublin. He became secretary to Sir Thomas Temple when he moved to London in 1688.
During the Great Revolution he came through the Whigs ideals and he begun to write his first satirical pomes which the most important where:
The Battle of the Books (1704); where he supported Temple's defence of the classics and mocked the moderns way to write.
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In 1694 he returned to Ireland and he was ordained, in 1713, as an Anglican Minister and soon became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
He opposed the Whig government in London "protecting" Ireland and its Church donating a third of his income.
The Drapier's Letters (1724-1725) that were a series of pamphlets which attacked the English governments criticising proposals like a new coinage.
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Gulliver's Travels: an opera came out in 1726 under the name of " Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World " which represented his masterpiece.
A Modest Proposal (1729): a book wrote with a lots of referrmenst of satire and irony where he denouncing the bad situation of Ireland.
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THE STYLE
The fundaments of his style are the: Irony, allegory and satire.
1 person narrator in a matter-of-fact prose style were characteristic.
He used his works to share a massage about the 18th-century England achieving effects of parody and irony with simplicity and concision.
IRONY
The irony worked to surprise the reader forcing him to recognise implicit meanings and creating awareness about different topics.
SATIRE
Through the Mockery of humans he shared his desire to instruct the reader by setting moral standards and reporting human cruelty and absurd behaviours.
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