Swift’s Satirical Technique in the Book IV of “Gulliver’s Travels”

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

Consider Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels As A Satire

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