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Topic Jonathan Swifts view on Gulliver travels
Paper 2 The Neo-classical LiteratureName Devendra A Joshi
Class M.A. Sem-1Submitted To Prof. Dilip Barad (Head of English Dept.
M. K. S. Bhavnagar University)
Jonathan Swift (1667--1745)
JONATHAN SWIFT• Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, of an English
family, which had important connections but little wealth.• Through the generosity of an uncle, he was educated at
Kilkenny Grammar School and then Trinity College in Dublin.• Between 1689 and 1699 he worked as a private secretary to
a distant kinship Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat. • And there he also received a first-rate education in politics
through contact with Temple and many other well-known politicians, learning much about hypocrisy,deception and corruption in the political world.
Satire on New Agricultural methodsSatire on preposterous scientfic
projectSatire on politicianSatire on historians, literary critics
and other
According to George woodcok,
“This novel is fantasy of the feature and a satire on the present, And in
the roles it carries conviction because of the export and
convincing handling of detail to create dplausible world”
The utopian IllusionSwift unconciled to the sickness of mankindMan dependent upon and limited by the laws
of natureA destructive Irony at work in “Gulliver
travel’s”Swift’s Attacks on human pride and vanity
• Captain William Pritchard: Captain Pritchard is the head of the ship named Antelope. He controls Gulliver's first voyage in which a storm overtakes the ship, leaving Gulliver stranded on the strange land of Lilliput.