By Natalia

Karbovanets
Jonathan Swift was an
Anglo-Irish satirist,
essayist, political
pamphleteer , poet and
cleric who became. He
Jonathan Swift
is remembered for
works such as
Gulliver's Travels, A
Modest Proposal….
 Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin,
Ireland. He was the second child and only
son of Jonathan Swift (1640-1667) and his
wife Abigail Erick (or Herrick), of Frisby-
on-the-Wreake
 He studied at Kilkenny Grammar
School between 1674 and 1682 and at
Trinity College between 1682 and 1689.
He received his M.A. in 1692. 
House in which After finishing his education Jonathan
Swift was born, Swift made numerous trips to London and
1865 illustration became famous for his satiric essays.
  Between 1702 and 1714, Swift was one of
the most important figures in the political
and the literary life of London.
 From 1713 to 1742 Swift was the dean of
St. Patrick's Cathedral.
 Swift’s most famous book “Gulliver's
Travels” was published in 1726 and was
the first serious work in prose written by
the author.
Bust in St Patrick's
 Swift died on 19 October 1745 and was
Cathedral.
buried in St Patrick's cathedral.

 Swift’s death mask

 Selected
works of Jonathan Swift
• "A Meditation upon a Broomstick"(1703–1710)
• "A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the
Mind" (1707–1711)
• The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (1708–1709)
• "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity"
(1708–1711)
• "On the Conduct of the Allies" (1711)
• “Gulliver's Travels” was published (1726)
• "A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered
into Holy Orders" (1720)
• "A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet" (1721):
• "Bon Mots de Stella" (1726)
• "A Modest Proposal", (1729)
• "An Essay on the Fates of Clergymen".
 His family, 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.
 He is regarded by the Encyclopædia
Britannica as the foremost prose satirist
in the English language, and is less well
known for his poetry.
 He originally published all of his works
under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel
Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, Drapier's
Letters as MB Drapier – or anonymously.
 He is also known for being a master of
two styles of satire, the Horatian and
Juvenalian styles.
 His deadpan, ironic writing style,
particularly in A Modest Proposal, has
led to such satire being subsequently
termed "Swiftian”
 Literary Position
 Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose.
 Swift is a master satirist. Even today, he is still regarded as
a national hero in Ireland.
 Gulliver’s Travels (1726), his greatest satiric work
 Humorous, witty
 Clever, sarcastic
 Criticizes event, person,
group
 Jonathan’s best fictional work
 was published in 1726
 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by
Samuel Gulliver.
 The book contains four parts, each dealing with one
particular voyage during which Gulliver meets with
extraordinary adventures on some remote island after he
has met with shipwreck of piracy of some other
misfortune.
 Narrator of novel
 Protagonist
 Middle-aged, middle class, British
 Intelligent, well-educated
 Naive
 Unaffectionate to wife
 A doctor on a Royal Navy ship
who washes up on the shores of
several fictional countries.
 Upon returning to England, he is
painfully aware of his country’s
flaws.
Mrs. Mary Burton:
Mrs. Mary Burton is
Gulliver's wife. He
only states her name
at the beginning of
the novel, and
thereafter refers to
her as his wife. She is
mentioned only
during his rare time
in England.
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.
The first part tells about his experience in Lilliput
The emperor believed himself to be the delight and
terror of the universe, but it appeared quite absurd to
Gulliver who was twelve times as tall as he.
In his account of the two parties in the country,
distinguished by the use of high and low heels.
Religious disputes were laughed at in an account of a
problem which divided the Lilliputians: “ Should eggs
be broken at the big end or the little end?”
Lilliputians
 Inhabit Lilliput
 Only 6 inches tall
 Prone to conspiracies and
jealousies
Emperor
 Ruler of the Lilliputians
 Despite small size, loves
being in control, exercising
his power, and his large
palace
He finds that the
population is split
between 'Big Enders' and
'Little Enders‘
The Emperor who is keen
to go to war with Belfuscu
and the defecting 'Big
Enders‘
The Empress who
originally likes Gulliver, but
is then offended when he
urinates on buildings to put
out a fire
 Second Journey to Brobdingnag
 In the second part, Gulliver is left alone
in Brobdingnag where people are not
only ten times taller and larger than
ordinary human beings, but also superior
in wisdom. Gulliver now found himself a
dwarf among men sixth feet in height.
The king, who regarded Europe as if it
were an anthill.
 Gulliver sold and used as a slave, mostly
used for entertainment purposes
 Discusses history and policies of his
native country with the King
 Brobdingnagians
 Giants that inhabit Brobdingnag
 Reasonable, gentle
 The Queen
 Sweet, kind
 Humorous, witty
 The King
 Intellectual, rational
 Does not know much about politics
The third part deals with mainly with his
accidental visit to the flying Island, where the
philosophers and projectors devote all their time
and energy to the study of some absurd problems.
Their scientists are engaged in projects for
exacting sunbeams out of cucumbers, turning ice
into gunpowder and making cloth from cobweb.
 Laputans Inhabitants of the flying island of Laputa which
has diameter of 7837 yards.
 Munodi A Lord who lives in Lagado the metropolis of
Balnibari
 Professors of various academies who take up Gulliver's
suggestions
 Governor of Glubbdubdrib
 Struldbruggs who offer eternal life but become
progressively senile in doing so.
 Maldonada A port
 Guldubdribb land of sorcerers
 Glangluenstand port of embarkation from Luggnagg
 Xamoschi landfall in Japan
 Nangasac where he meets Captain Theodorus Vangrult
with whom he sailed back to England.
 Final Journey to the Country
of the Houyhnhnms
 Horses rule the deformed
Yahoos
 Gulliver banished from their
society
 Feel he is a threat to their
civilization
 Aware he has a resemblance
to a Yahoo
 The last part is a most interesting account of his
discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land, where horses are
endowed with reason and all good and admirable
qualities, and are the governing class.
 Contrary to the Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos possess every
conceivable evil. They are malicious, spiteful, envious,
unclean and greedy. Gulliver admires the life and ways of
the horses, as much as he is disgusted with the Yahoos,
whose relations remind him of those existing in English
society to such a degree that he shudders at the prospect
of returning to his native.
Yahoos
 Yahoo’s an uncouth human like
race
 Dirty, hairy, primitive, but
humanlike
 Many different kinds
 Blonde, redheaded, dark-haired
 Servants of Houyhnhnms

Houyhnhnms
 A horse-like race who rule over
the unruly
 Live in peaceful, simple society
 Rule with reason and truthfulness
 Do not even have the word “lie”
in their vocabulary
The author takes his last
leave of the reader;
proposes his manner of
living for the future;
gives good advice, and
concludes.