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Jonathan Swift There he met Esther Johnson (Stella) From 1713 to 1742 Swift was the dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. He became a national hero to the Irish people Jonathan Swift died in Dublin on October 19, 1745 One of the greatest XVIII century satirists Was born in Dublin on 30 November 1667 Graduated from Trinity College in 1686 and then went to England Secretary to Sir William Temple at Moor Park

Most famous works Gulliver's Travels A Modest Proposal A Journal to Stella Drapier's Letters The Battle of the Books An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity A Tale of a Tub

Gulliver's Travels Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships

Part I: Lilliput Swift satirizes the English court and aristocracy He laughs at the Tories and Whigs, the main political parties of that time in England

Part II: Brobdingnag The country of the giants is governed by common sense, reason and justice, which is not the case in England. Even a clever king cannot do much for his people

Part III: Laputa Swift laughs at every kind of impractical science and philosophy The Laputans neglect practical matters to indulge in theory The flying island is a symbol of England’s domestic and colonial policy

Part IV: The country of the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos In Book IV Swift’s satire is the bitterest The Houyhnhnms are a race of noble horses The beastly Yahoos-animals in the shape of men The reader is made to see the stupidity of England’s state system

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