Saturday, May 05, 2012

Gulliver’s Travels Q: Discuss Swift’s satire as reflected of Gulliver’s Travels.


                Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, pamphleteer, poet and cleric, writes his masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels with a great purpose to satirize physical, intellectual, moral, political, social, religious, scientific and rational follies, ills, evils, ugliness, shortcomings, absurdities and futility of the contemporary society as well as of mankind in general. In fact, the book is a satire on main four aspects of man the physical, the political, the intellectual and the moral.

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