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Religious Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide

a "scathing response" to those who followed ignorantly (Family Education Network). In this simple critique we can see that relig...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

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...

Use of Satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In three pages this paper compares Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift with Candide by Voltaire in terms of how each author used ...

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 ...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Satire

to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). Howev...

The Satirical Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

uses to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). ...

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...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and the Use of Moral Satire

reason, and his virtue is merely appearance" (Galloway). In relationship to the Lilliputians we note that a great deal of pride...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Impact of the Outsider

In five pages this paper examines how the outsider impacts Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Three sources are cited in the b...

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...

Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper analyzes the Lilliput voyage's significance in terms of cementing the foundation for the other voyages fe...

Storytellers the Knight in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

In five pages these tellers of tales are compared. There are no other sources listed....

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...

Gulliver’s Travels by Swift

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

Shaku Zulu and Lilliputians

as an attractive rationally conducted people" but then "in chapter IV we learn of their violent internal factions, unceasing civil...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

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...

Behavior That is Rational vs. Irrational

Jason was only seeking his own gratification. He wanted to have it all. His intent was to gain both power and social standing by...

Socrates' Observation 'The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living'

only a satire of society and politics, it is also an example of ones examination of his life. Although this work is a satire, it ...

Food Symbolism in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines how food symbolism or anecdotal references provide satire on human suffering in Jonathan Swift's...

Gulliver/His Cultural Tools

voyage, he saves the Lilliputian emperors palace from certain destruction by urinating on it in order to put out a fire that th...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Human Condition

finds himself in Lilliput, which is in a constant state of war with their enemies, the Blefuscudians over the ridiculous issue of ...

Politics and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

by Swifts outstanding ability to use satire in his ongoing critique of society. In each Swift uses satire to ridicule those custo...

Gulliver Adaptations

the protagonists "descent into madness and misanthropy" (Stallcup 87). As Stallcup observes, this is "hardly a likely candidate fo...

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...

Social Critics Jonathan Swift and Voltaire

night and day" (Voltaire 102). A great physician, Hermes, is called in. The famous doctor comments that if it had been Zadigs righ...

Satire Modeled After Candide

Herbert felt, were much smarter than himself. In particular, Herbert relied on his political adviser Carl Wanderer and his second-...

Literary Satire

In 5 pages literary satire through history is examined in a discussion of Lysistrata by Aristophanes, As You Like It by William Sh...