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Jonathan Swift - Humor, Satire and Irony


But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young laborers, they are now in as hopeful a condition; they cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment, to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labor, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come." (Swift 344) The language and sarcasm presented in Swift's material is quite comical. At time it may seem out of line or obscene but the way he just exiles the thought of elderly people being able to obtain work and produce. .
             Jonathan Swift is admired by all his readers who come across his work. Since he first started writing and producing his work in the 1700s he has always well accounted for his upfront and abrasive writing, "He pays no court to the passions; he excites neither surprise nor admiration; he always understands himself, and his readers always understand him: the per user of Swift wants little previous knowledge; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things; he is neither required to mount elevations nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction." (Nordiques) Like most of his fans and admirers they appreciate the entertainment Swift has brought to the English language. He brings the beautiful and the simple while the irony makes the reader conscious of the risks of following thoughtlessly on one viewpoint, especially when it has a result on the whole population.
             In "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, the bureaucracy of England is solely founded on satire and irony. Throughout the work of Jonathan Swift's time in the kingdom had a straight effect, even in the dominion of law though there was a rising bureaucracy emerging.


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