1. Jonathan Swift and Gulliver’s Trevels
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2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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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