Topic: Gulliver’s Travels as a satire

Name:Parmar jinal B.Roll No.:16M.A. Sem.:1Sub.: The Neo-Classical LiteratureSubmitted to:Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of EnglishM.K. Bhavnagar university

Jonathan Swift

Introduction

Anglo-Irish Satirist

Essayist Political

Pamphleteer Poet Cleric

Satire Definition

“Satire is genre of literature, and sometimes graphic, and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcoming are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming, individuals corporation, and society itself into improvement”

There are two type of satire: 1. Comic satire 2. corrosive satire

Gulliver’s Travels as a satire

A Social Satire Four Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver1.A Voyage to Lilliput2.A Voyage to

Brobdingnag3.A Voyage to Laputa4.The land of

Houyhnhnms

A Voyage to LilliputSix inches LilliputiansSatirizes on politicsPolitical tactics

“ They bury their dead with their head directly downwards because they hold an opinion that after eleven thousands moons they are all to rises again”

A Voyage to BrobdingnagSatire on Human body Human talents Human limitations“The most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth”“It stood prominent six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference… spots and pimples that nothing could appear more nauseous.”

A Voyage to LaputaSatire on Human intellectHuman mindScience ,Philosophy and mathematics“Their heads were inclined either to the right or to the left, one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to Zenith”“They made a lot of theories but practically nill”

The Land of HouyhnhnmsSatire on human moral shortcomingsSatire on mankind“Yet I confess I never say any sensitive being so detestable on all accounts; and the more I came near them, the more hateful they grew”“Everything is calculated as the Plato’s Utopian land ‘The Republican”

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