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John Swift


             friends. The unbearable lifestyle he endured while living in Ireland forced .
             him to write his brilliant satirical essay, A Modest Proposal. This essay .
             suggested that the people of Ireland should use their children for a cash .
             crop.
             In the book Gulliver's Travels, the author reflects his life on the main .
             character to Prove a point, mankind are savages. All that was necessary .
             was that he take on a deliberate persona in the form some self-deceived .
             enthusiast. (Cook, pg.92) The protagonist of the story Lemieux Gulliver, .
             went on many voyages and left his wife and child back in England for months .
             at a time. The first voyage he went on in the book was to Lilliput. All of .
             the places he went to were by accident. It was either he was shipwrecked or his boat was taken .
             over by pirates. In Lilliput, he fell asleep ashore and woke up tied down by .
             the barbaric Lilliputians. These natives are only three inches high and look .
             exactly like humans but smaller. Swift satirizes our bestial selves and use .
             them as these Lilllputians. These Lilliputians are pure evil and very .
             corrupt. Their government system is similar to ours. Their leader is an .
             Emperor who has all but some power over their country. He also has advisors .
             who seem to influence the Emperor in all his decisions even if he did not .
             agree. This system is similar to our government and congress having equal.
             power to the president. In order for a person to gain a seat in congress or .
             hold a certain political position in our society, they have to be elected by .
             the people. In Lilliput, the people gain their political power in the .
             strangest and silliest way. The emperor holds a stick out in front of the .
             person and in order for the person to get the highest position possible, .
             they must be able to jump over or crawl under the stick depending how the .
             emperor positions it. The emperor may raise the stick and lower it for .
             whomever he wants. He may pick favorites and make it easier for them to get .


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1. Johnathan Swift

The challenge concerned a man, John Patridge, who summoned fellow clergymen to compete with him at prophecy. ... Swift talks about the General's conscience dying (line 12). ... Another poetic element hat Swift uses is sarcasm. ... The majority of Swift's poems are very satirical, so living in this period was quite beneficial to Swift. ... The writers who critiqued Swift's poems rarely commented on his actual poems but rather on Swift himself. ...

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2. Bunyan, Swift and Pope

The Last of the half Grant Kohler John Bunyan was not the first to write a significant work on the metaphorical journey of life. ... While undertaking a similar task that John Milton faced, that is, to make the basis of the Bible more identifiable for the reader, Bunyan interlopes quotation from the Bible into his prose. ... Of all the writers of the Neoclassic era, Swift is my favorite. ... Both Swift and Pope have written on the subject of the ways of man, Swift writes Fiction, Pope writes poetry. An Essay on man is like a straight-up shot of Swift. ...

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3. Humanity of Swift

Swift's Theory of Humanity Jonathan Swift used part IV of Gulliver's Travels to present his theory that reason is the essence of mankind. ... Because Swift believed that Roman Catholics had no part in English government and the Whigs objected to this idea, Swift changed parties and became a Tory. ... (Swift 508-509) In part IV of Gulliver's Travels, Swift created an island inhabited by two contrasting species. ... John Locke wrote: "?... Here is an example of how Swift de...

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4. Jonathan Swift's: Gulliver's Travels

One author, for example, was Jonathan Swift, who is, and was, one of the greatest satirical authors ever. ... However, some critics, such as John B. Moore, see Gulliver as a completely different character than Swift. ... Swift uses the Brobdingnagians [the giants] as a way to satirize the impact of violence and war. ... However, Swift may by conveying another thought, through Gulliver, of Swifts total and absolute! ...

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5. Literary Trends of the Restoration Period (18th Century)

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6. The Presence of Pride in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible"

John Procter is a strong man, who thrives at the chance to be right and known. But by the end of the play he questions himself saying, "Who is John Proctor, Who is John Proctor?" ... The trials to John Proctor are a time of change. ... John Hale represents the voice or authority and reasoning. ... His pride is swiftly destroyed and he asks the men and women to confess to saves their lives. ...

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7. The Fire and the Cold

The fire is Ann's companion while John is away. ... "Across the drifts sped swift and snake like tongues of snow." ... "The whips of light still flickered and coiled, but now suddenly they were the swift little snakes that this afternoon she had watched twist and shiver across the snow." The snake is now evil because Ann was worried about John but Steven kept telling her that he would not try to come home in the blizzard. ... She is ashamed for betraying John so she stands in the cold to numb herself for doing what she knew was wrong. ...

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  • Grade Level: High School

8. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes

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9. Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was known throughout his life as an outcast. ... This maddened Swift, who wasted no time in forging an alliance with the Tory party. ... At the time Swift's chief ally was St. John Henry Viscount Bolingbroke, a dedicated Tory democrat, while his main adversary was the Whig Party's Sir Robert Walpole. While a member of the Tory's Scriblerus Club, Swift began experimenting with satirical writing. ...

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  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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