In an allegory, some actual actions or instructive morals are shadowed under imaginary persons or things. Every allegory has two senses- the literal and the mystical. The literal sense is like the vision of which the mystical is the true meaning. The story consists of fictitious persons, creatures of the poet’s brain in a moral … Read more
The Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most savage and terrible indictments of humankind. The clarity and force of Swift’s style are everywhere apparent in this book. In Gulliver’s Travels, Swift exposes intense hatred of humankind. Such hatred is nothing but the reverse side of love. The degradation, Swift’s vileness to man, could not … Read more
Jonathan Swift’s satirical masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels is a celebrated prose work in the form of a travel book. Swift’s real purpose in writing this book was to lash humankind for its follies, absurdities, and evil deeds. The writer employs irony, mockery, ridicule, sarcasm, and even invective as the weapons of attack, which he illustrates through different stages. … Read more
