SUMMITED TO :- THE DEPARMENT OF ENGLISH

M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY

CHINTAVAN BHUNGANI M.A SEM:- 1ROLL NO:- 06

TOPIC:- JONATAHN SWIFT AS SATIRIST

Jonathan swift(1667-1745)

Anglo-Irish satirist Essayist Political pamphleteer Poet Cleric

What is satire?“Satire is genre of literature, and sometimes graphic, and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuse and shortcoming are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming, individuals corporation, and society itself into improvement”

Types of satire HumorIrony: Invective: Mock EncomiumGrotesque: Comic

Juxtaposition: Mock Epic/Mock HeroicParody: InflationDiminution

Gulliver’s travels as satire A social satire

Four voyages of Lemual gulliver

1) A voyage to Lilliput

2) A voyage to brobdingnag

3) A voyage to laputa

4) The land of houyhnhnms

The novel can be read as the most powerful ever made against man’s wickedness and stupidity.

It is myth of religious.This book was attacking roman catholic, dissenters and other religion of English The "tale" presents a consistent satire of

religious excess, while the digressions are a series of parodies of contemporary writing in literature, politics, theology, Biblical exegesis, and medicine.

“good god! What a genius , I had when I wrote that book”

A tale of tub

o Which explores the merits of the ancient and the moderns in literature

o Ancients vs. Moderns

o Jonathan Swift worked for William Temple during the time of the controversy, and Swift's A Tale of a Tub (1703/1705) takes part in the debate. From its first publication, Swift added a short satire entitled "The Battle of the Books" to the Tale of a Tub. In this piece, there is an epic battle fought in a library when various books come alive and attempt to settle the arguments between moderns and ancients. In Swift's satire, he skillfully manages to avoid saying which way victory fell. He portrays the manuscript as having been damaged in places, thus leaving the end of the battle up to the reader.

The battle of books

Thus, Jonathan Swift is great satirist in English literature. Satire can be defined as a means by which the author can expose the reality of individual communities or all ,mankind by irony, mockery, ridicule , sarcasm, and even invectives as the weapon’s of attack. Swift uses all the above means.He uses irony in double way. He is a master or corrosive as well as comic satire. His comic satire makes us laugh. Corrosive type of satire is fully developed in book 4 of gulliver travels .