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 many ways. In the novel, Swift uses metaphors....
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