Analysis on Swift's Attitude Towards Humanity

Fundamentally, the main two characters in these books Voltaire’s “Candide” and Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” (Candide and Gulliver) respectively have been used as units or vehicles for satire throughout the works. It is therefore of paramount importance to note that, Gulliver and Candide serve as ironies in these books. The books uses simple language but is characterized by irony as shown by the actions, practices, and behaviors of the characters. Also of importance to note is that, although the author exposes the two main characters to positions that do not best fit them in terms of their actions, the reader must be made to understand that the characters remain oblivious and naïve to their circumstances. According to the nature of the two literature works, I think the reader must be made to understand that, the two books are used to criticize human weakness by using some names such as Yahoos and Horse to describe human and the society.

     Jonathan Swift is one of the best known satirists in the history of literature. When one reads his works, especially something like Gulliver’s Travels, it is easy for one to spot the misanthropic themes, which emerge within his characterization. Lamuel Gulliver is an excellent protagonist: a keen observer, and a good representative of his native England, but one who loses faith in mankind as his story progresses. He ends up in remote areas of the world all by accidents in his voyages. In each trip, he is shipwrecked and mysteriously arrives to lands never before seen by men. This forms an interesting rhythm in the novel: as Gulliver is given more and more responsibility, he tends to be less

To fully comprehend the complexities of Jonathan Swift’s satirical argument the reader must examine his ethos. Swift is absolutely dissatisfied with the level of delay his state offers to the social issues that plague his fellow countrymen, and recognizes the stigma that society has against the beggars and poor citizens that walk the streets. Centering his argument around the country adopting cannibalism is less a proposal to alleviate the societal, economic and political burden of the homeless and more designed to shine light on humanity’s true feelings of equality and welfare. Swift is angered by his country’s shrinking morality and inability to devise social programs to mend

Swift was a neoclassical writer who wrote to enlighten people. He wanted people to look at the world that exits beyond them selves and discover virtue. Through his work Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift demonstrates to the reader the importance of virtue. I this story the main character am Gulliver; a world traveler who takes a journey to different lands. Each place that Gulliver lands has different ideals that are the foundation of their society. Their views on life are completely new to Gulliver.

    During the eighteenth century there was an incredible upheaval of commercialization in London, England.  As a result, English society underwent significant, "changes in attitude and thought", in an attempt to obtain the dignity and splendor of royalty and the upper class (McKendrick,2).  As a result, English society held themselves in very high regards, feeling that they were the elite society of mankind.  In his novel, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes this English society in many ways.  In the novel, Swift uses metaphors to reveal his disapproval of English society.  Through graphic representations of the body and it's functions, Swift reveals to the reader that grandeur is

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a story about a man named Gulliver who travels to many different islands in his quest to get home. His first encounter is with the Lilliputians on their island of Lilliput. The Lilliputians seemed rational and reasonable at first, but in reality they are not rational at all. They are revealed to be irrational because they have a corrupt court, wierd laws, and blatant discrimination.

Our elected officials must now go on talk shows and dance with Ellen Degeneres or humour us with their comedic timing on SNL. Politicians today and of the past can gain office through family ties, wealth and political favors. There is no tightrope as in Swift's tale but elected officials know whom they need to keep happy if they want to continue or increase their position in office. Swift uses Gulliver’s Travels to criticize the political condition and silliness of English society during the 18th century and to make a satire of George 1 royal court. Even though the major players have changed the greed, corruption, violence and human practice of blindly following traditions is still alive today which makes this satire relevant. Money and titles still gives people the power to

Two novels use satire to criticize human weakness. In ‘Gulliver’s Travel’, Swift makes up a horse society Houyhnhnm and a brutal animal Yahoo. Gulliver has to admit that human beings are yahoos after a series comparison between human and yahoo. Vices of human beings are exposed by the Swift’s satiric

The Lilliputians are supposed to symbolize the Whigs, and Swift thinks of them as stupid and power-hungry. He demonstrates this when they search Gulliver for weapons. In Swift’s time the Whigs searched the Tories for evidence of their connections with England. He also makes fun of the thinking at the time; the Lilliputians were discriminated against whether they wore either high heels or low heels, and the ones that tried to remain neutral worse one high heel and one low heel. At the end of the book Swift demonstrates his thought on humans, when all the humans were savage and stupid, while the animals were brilliant. I believe that Swift demonstrates all his points very well. The reader is transported to the story, yet unlike most books, Swift doesn’t tell the reader exactly what to think, he insinuates it but lets the reader come to his own conclusions.

Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1762 with the intent of providing entertainment for people. Entertainment through satire was what Swift had in mind. In Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift traveled to four different foreign countries, each representing a corrupt part of England. Swift criticized the corruption of such parts and focused on the government, society, science, religion and man. Not only did Swift criticize the customs of each country, he mocked the naive man who was unable to figure out the double meaning of things. When reading Gulliver's Travels, reflects upon plot, characters, settings, theme, point of view, conflicts, climax, resolution, symbolism and figurative

Jonathan Swift's story, Gulliver's Travels, is a very clever story. It recounts the fictitious journey of a fictitious man named Lemuel Gulliver, and his travels to the fantasy lands of Lilliput, Brobdinag, Laputa, and Houyhnhmn land. When one first reads his accounts in each of these lands, one may believe that they are reading humorous accounts of fairy-tale-like lands that are intended to amuse children. When one reads this story in the light of it being a satire, the stories are still humorous, but one realizes that Swift was making a public statement about the affairs of England and of the human race as a whole.

A single narrator is used by Jonathan Swift in to highlight the decline of one man. If multiple narrators were used in this novel then his satire would be weaker since we would get many perspectives on the same event and the reader would not align themselves with a single narrator’s perspective. This single mindedness strengthens the satire. The telling of Gulliver’s Travels through a first person narrative allows enhances the satire of the European society and

By the end of the book, it is clear to Gulliver that the people of England are exactly like the yahoos. He is disgusted by this idea and when he returns home, he can hardly be around his family. He also despises the thought that he brought more humans into the world. Gulliver had so much pride in who he thought he was that when he realizes he is completely wrong, he has a strong desire to become more like the horses because he views them as the ideal being. Gulliver goes from the idea that England could do nothing wrong to the idea that the horses could do nothing wrong. Jonathan Swift is criticizing human pride through the way Gulliver’s pride causes him to be blind to reality.

It was written under the pen-name Lemuel Gulliver, Swift told stories of a series of expeditions to strange new worlds. More than simple fantasy writing, Swift’s novel was a heavy and intricate satire on politics, religion and other vices. The real stroke of genius that Swift managed with Gulliver’s Travels was its universality; and thus a book written in 1726 is still read in 2016. Comic elements were deliberately used and aimed quite directly at established power structures, but the elements of fantasy written into the story is capable to attract

Thesis Statement: Jonathan Swift’s literary canon of politically and comically-prolific satires, fantasies, and allegories was seasoned with his exposure to the follies of the economic, religious and governing institutions of the British Empire, and thus, he sought to lampoon and caricature the current events and social, cultural, religious, and political trends that were so omnipotent during his lifetime.