Jonathan Swift 1667-1745

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Jonathan Swift1667-1745

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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 He received an MA from Oxford in 1692
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 He received an MA from Oxford in 1692 He became an Anglican priest in 1695
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 He received an MA from Oxford in 1692 He became an Anglican priest in 1695 He was granted a Dr. of Divinity degree from Trinity in 1702
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 He received an MA from Oxford in 1692 He became an Anglican priest in 1695 He was granted a Dr. of Divinity degree from Trinity in 1702 He was active in the early debates of the political parties in EnglandWhigs and Tories
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Jonathan Swift
Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 He received a BA from Trinity College, Dublin in 1686 He received an MA from Oxford in 1692 He became an Anglican priest in 1695 He was granted a Dr. of Divinity degree from Trinity in 1702 He was active in the early debates of the political parties in EnglandWhigs and Tories Swift is famous for his satires Tale of a Tub (1704) A Modest Proposal (1729) Gullivers Travels (1726)
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Four booksfour voyages Lilliput Brobdingnag Laputa Houyhnhnms
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels is a parody of the genre of travel narrative During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, these tales of voyages of exploration and colonial adventure were extremely popular Christopher Columbus Amerigo Vespucci (for whom America is named) Sir Walter Raleigh Captain John Smith Mores Utopia also parodies the genre, and Shakespeares The Tempest invokes the genre Travel narratives are often sometimes utopianBook IV of Gullivers Travels also parodies Mores Utopia
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Jonathan Swift
Lemuel Gullivers four voyages can be seen as a satirical exploration of the human condition What does it mean to be a human being? The name Gulliver may suggest that he is gullible Gullivers first voyage, to Lilliput Gulliver encounters a land of tiny people. According to Stuart Sherman, editor of the Longman Anthology of British Literature Vol. 1c The diminutive citizens of Lilliput represent human small-mindedness and petty ambitions. Filled with self-importance, they Lilliputians are cruel, treacherous, malicious and destructive. (Longman Anthology, p. 2531)
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers second voyage, to Brobdingnag, a land of giants In Brobdingnag Gulliver is reduced to the size of a Lilliputian. According to Stuart Sherman He is humbled by his own helplessness and, finding the huge bodies of the Brobdingnagians grotesque, he realizes how repulsive the Lilliputians must have found him. When Gulliver gives the wise king of Brobdingnag an account of the political affairs of Englandwhich manifest hypocrisy, avarice and hatredthe enlightened monarch concludes that most of the countrys inhabitants must be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the Earth. (Longman Anthology, p. 2531)
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Jonathan Swift
Sherman concludes Throughout Gullivers Travels that which is admirable is held up to expose corruption in the readers world, and that which is deplorable is identified with the institutions and practices of contemporary Europe, particularly Britain. . . . With brilliantly modulated ironic self-awareness, Swifts painful comedy of exposure to the truth of human frailty demonstrates that there is no room for the distortions of human pride in a world where our practices are so evidently at variance with our principles. Swift advances no program of social reform, but provokes a new recognitionliterally, a re-thinkingof our own humanity. (Longman Anthology, p. 2531)
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Book IV Gullivers crew mutinies and puts him ashore on an unknown island
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Book IV Gullivers crew mutinies and puts him ashore on an unknown island The island turns out to be inhabited by the Houyhnhnms--creatures who look like horses but are more civilized and intelligent than humans, in Gullivers view
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Book IV Gullivers crew mutinies and puts him ashore on an unknown island The island turns out to be inhabited by the Houyhnhnms--creatures who look like horses but are more civilized and intelligent than humans, in Gullivers view The island also has Yahooscreatures who look like humans but are sub-human in intelligence, savage and disgusting
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Jonathan Swift
Gullivers Travels Book IV Gullivers crew mutinies and puts him ashore on an unknown island The island turns out to be inhabited by the Houyhnhnms--creatures who look like horses but are more civilized and intelligent than humans, in Gullivers view The island also has Yahooscreatures who look like humans but are sub-human in intelligence, savage and disgusting