Essay Archive - The Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed
The Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed
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 ....
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