Jonathan Swift By: Phillip Norselli

Early life Born November In Dublin Ireland Father was a lawyer Unexpectedly died a few months before he was born

Cont. Second child Only son Mom left him to live with two uncles Attended best school in Ireland Kilkenny Grammar School

Jobs Worked at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin Was a secretary for his mentor Sir William Temple

Pseudonyms A fictitious name, especially a pen name Used one for most of his works Lemuel Gulliver Isaac Bickerstaff M.B. Drapier

Health Ménière's disease Symptoms of Ménière's disease occur suddenly and can arise daily or as infrequently as once a year usually involves a whirling dizziness that forces the person to lie down

Writings Known as the best satirist of all time Satire- the use of irony, sarcasm, or ridicule Lots of poetry Essays Books

Gullivers Travels Swift's best known full-length work a classic of English literature 1726 Gulliver's Travels has been adapted several times for film and television

Cont. Book is divided into four parts Part I: A Voyage To Lilliput On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and wakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people one-twelfth the size of normal human beings

Part II A Voyage to Brobdingnag When the sea vessel Adventure is steered off course by storms and forced to go in to land for want of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 80 feet tall His daughter takes care of Gulliver He endures adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey

Part III A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates and he is stranded on a desolate rocky island he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom based on the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use these for practical means. In it they describe a device as The Engine which is possibly the first literary description in history of something resembling a computer

Part IV A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms Gulliver was hesitant to return back to sea but does his crew was captured by Dutch and Japanese pirates in order to force them to also become pirates He is abandoned and meets a horse that speaks english He is then rescued, against his will, by a Portuguese ship that returns him to his home in England

Other Famous works The prose play A Tale of a Tub A Modest Proposal

Other Works Essays A Meditation upon a Broomstick The Examiner The Intelligencer A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders Poems A Description of the Morning The Place of the Damn'd A Pastoral Dialogue On a Very Old Glass

End of life his Meniere's Disease became more acute Began to lose memory 1738 he slipped gradually into senility Suffered a paralytic stroke Died on October 19, 1745

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