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The Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this research paper examines the 1704 text The Tale of a Tub, a religious satire by Jonathan Swift. Four sources ar...

Jonathan Swift's Satire in A Tale of the Tub, The Battle of the Books, A Modest Proposal, and Gulliver's Travel

In a discussion of these texts consisting of eight pages this paper analyzes the satire of Jonathan Swift. Four sources are cited...

Enlightenment and the Literature of Voltaire, Moliere, and Jonathan Swift

In two pages this research paper discusses how the Age of Reason is reflected in Candide by Voltaire, Tartuffe by Moliere, and Gul...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

America as Viewed by Jonathan Swift

convinced that they have achieved unity between these often disparate political entities despite the obvious fact that nothing cou...

Voltaire's Satires Zadig and Candide

to look up as there was a new way of thinking emerging, but this fictitious view features the protagonist Candide in an extraordin...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and How Satire is Used

be a way of discreetly getting his message across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical...

Satire and Utopia in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

of war, and its punishments for crime in the name of law and order were extreme. To Jonathan Swift, England more closely resemble...

Eighteenth Century Literary Satire in the Works of Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift

her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(1) The Rabelaisian joke has often been deciphered in the light of early eighteenth-century topica...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Shock, Satire, and Irony

In five pages this paper examines the author's masterful uses of irony, satire, and shock in his criticism of British greed and Ir...

Satire in Books One, Two, and Four of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how Swift satirizes his functional changes in these books with a consideration of sociology and ...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

The Use of Satire by Jonathan Swift and George Orwell

the animals story follows exactly that of the two men: At first Snowball is Napoleons trusted companion; soon he becomes a rival; ...

Satirical Meaning in Gulliver's Travels

cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...

Prejudice Against Gulliver in Lilliput

This essay focuses on the prejudice displayed toward Gulliver by the people of Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Th...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

Yahoos in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

As Gulliver learns their language he has come to hear the word "Yahoo" over and over and he has little understanding of who or wha...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch ...

Swift's Use of Irony in "A Modest Proposal"

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal

not the only way, and it may not be the best way of thinking either. Although one may argue he does not transform completely and u...

Women in Candide

social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

form of thought a solution may be found to this problem. At this point he notes that a child, just "dropped from its dam" would ...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the values presented in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Daniel Defoe's Rob...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

Vexing and the Writings of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Swift

a slender thread, with the flames of the divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. ...

Propaganda and Literature Relating to British Imperialism

... The English in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as driven by ideological convictions, by a belief ...

'Outsider' and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

It is irrational to think that one is any larger than he/she should be or has a right to be. It is also irrational to think that ...