Firstly, Goldsmith now is more recognized for his dramas and poetry, with plays such as "She Stoops to Conquer", whereas Swift is famous for his style and sarcasm, with works such as Gulliver's Travels and "A Modest Proposal". ... Swift deliberately wrote satirical works with the primary intention of provoking change, as his excellent "A Modest Proposal" shows. Swift wrote this article out of his outrage at the reluctance of the British government to do anything to improve the great suffering of the Irish during a time of famine and want, and so he proposed a ridiculous scheme ...

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Many authors write books about events, their lives and their environment, and their corrupt government. One satirical author who wrote a novel about living in a corrupt society is Jonathan Swift who wrote Gulliver's Travels. The places the protagonist had visited reflected on the author's Engl...

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