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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), it consists of four books linked to four…
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
works
A Tale of a Tub
(1704)
Satire about religious parties, Catholics and Dissenters.
Gulliver’s Travels
(1726)
Satirical novel.
A Modest Proposal
(1729)
Satire suggesting that the poverty of Irish people should be relieved by the sale of their children as food for the rich.
The Battle of the
Books (1704)
Satire about the merits of ancient and modern literature.
controversial
Labelled alternatively as
misanthrope
lover of mankind
concerned with politics and society;
pessimistic attitude;
did not share the optimism of his age.
style
First-person narration;
matter-of-fact prose style;
free of literary colouring;
record of observed details with the precision of a scientific instrument.
Gulliver’s Travels
(1726)
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the hero is the ship’s
surgeon Lemuel Gulliver;
provided illustrated maps
of the places Gulliver visited.
originality
Constant displacement of the hero;
Gulliver both as an object and an instrument of satire.
Gulliver forced into comparison not with men but with
animals;
interpretations
A tale for children: Gulliver’s amusing and absurd adventures;
a political allegory of Swift’s time;
a parody of voyage literature;
a masterpiece of misanthropy
it consists of
four books
linked
to four different settings;
1 book
Gulliver sails from Bristol;
after six months is shipwrecked somewhere in the South Pacific;
cast upon the shore of ‘
Lilliput
’;
‘Lilliputians’, are
only six inches tall.
2 book
Gulliver sails for India;
he finds himself in ‘Brobdingnag’, a country located in Alaska;
the natives are giants
he becomes the
king’s pet
, kept in a cage dropped in the middle of the Ocean
rescued by a ship, he returns to England.
3 book
Gulliver’s ship attacked by pirates who set him adrift on a small boat;
he finds himself on the flying island of ‘Laputa’;
the inhabitants are immortal absent-minded astronomers, philosophers and scientists
the island drops Gulliver on Japan and he manages to return to England.
4 book
Gulliver’s last voyage to the island inhabited by the‘Houyhnhnms’;
horses endowed with reason that rule over the
‘Yahoos’
, a vile species of animal
he joins his wife and children but cannot stand their smell of humanity;
he goes to live in the stable.
Printed in London in 1726;