1. Topic
Jonathan Swifts view on Gulliver travels
Paper 2 The Neo-classical Literature
Name Devendra A Joshi
Class M.A. Sem-1
Submitted To Prof. Dilip Barad (Head of English Dept.
M. K. S. Bhavnagar University)
3. JONATHAN SWIFT
• Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, of an English family,
which had important connections but little wealth.
• Through the generosity of an uncle, he was educated at Kilkenny
Grammar School and then Trinity College in Dublin.
• Between 1689 and 1699 he worked as a private secretary to a
distant kinship Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat.
• And there he also received a first-rate education in politics through
contact with Temple and many other well-known politicians,
learning much about hypocrisy,deception and corruption in the
political world.
4. Satire on New Agricultural methods
Satire on preposterous scientfic project
Satire on politician
Satire on historians, literary critics and
other
5. According to George woodcok,
“This novel is fantasy of the feature and a
satire on the present, And in the roles it
carries conviction because of the export
and convincing handling of detail to
create dplausible world”
6. The utopian Illusion
Swift unconciled to the sickness of mankind
Man dependent upon and limited by the laws of
nature
A destructive Irony at work in “Gulliver travel’s”
Swift’s Attacks on human pride and vanity
7. • Captain William Pritchard: Captain Pritchard is the
head of the ship named Antelope. He controls
Gulliver's first voyage in which a storm overtakes the
ship, leaving Gulliver stranded on the strange land of
Lilliput.
