Jonathan Swift & Gulliver’s travels Madli Paves XI b 2010

Jonathan Swift ( ) born in Dublin, Ireland father died, mother left suffered from poverty Kilkenny Grammar School Trinity College in Dublin 1689 went to England : hoped to gain preferment in the Anglican Church worked for Sir William Temple met Esther Johnson – “Stella” began to suffer from Meniere’s Disease got a M.A. degree from Oxford

Religious Beliefs was a clergyman, member of the Church of Ireland a militant defender of his church 1700 was instituted Vicar of Laracor and later promoted as Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral (Dublin) attacked theological attempts to define and limit orthodoxy the Church = a force for rationality and moderation rationis capax

Political Beliefs & Later Life first a member of the Whig party later a member of the Tory Party supported the Glorious (Bloodless) Revolution became the editor of the Tory newspaper The Examiner When Tories fell from power, all hopes for preferement in England came to an end. He returned to Ireland “to die like a poisoned rat in a hole”. (his own words) Published many works, compiling tracts and poems and most importantly “Gulliver’s Travels”. By 1735 his MD had become more acute. Jonathan Swift died on October 19, 1745.

Jonathan Swift’s works Satires: A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the Books A Modest Proposal A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick Gulliver’s travels Pamphlets: The Abolishing of the Christianity in England On the conduct of the allies The Barrier Treaty The Public Spirit of the Whigs Poems: A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed Cadenus and Vanessa A Description of a City Shower Other: The Journal to Stella Also wrote many sermons, prayers, etc.

Gulliver’s travels Part 1 – A Voyage to Lilliput Part 2 – A Voyage to Brobdingnag Part 3 – A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, and Japan Part 4 – A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms Gulliver's Travels is the story of Lemuel Gulliver and his voyages around the world. Prefaced by two letters attesting to the truth of the tales, the adventures are told by Gulliver after his return home from his final journey.

Part 1 Part 3 Part 4

Gulliver’s travels Themes: Might versus Right The Individual versus Society The Limits of Human Understanding Motifs: Excrement Foreign Languages Clothing Symbols: Lilliputians Brobdingnagians Laputans Houyhnhnms England

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