Swift’s Political Satire in Book I and II of Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels has been described to be a great satiric masterpiece. The book was not written to entertain but to indict politicians, scientists, philosophers, and Englishmen in general. In Book I and II, Swift’s satire is more toward individual targets rather than firing a broadside at abstract concepts. Politics And Politicians in Book I And … Read more

Consider William Blake As A Social Critic

William Blake was a pioneer of romantic revival in English literature who wrote lyrics and then prophetic poems. However, they were not to the taste of his time. He was the first to introduce the romantic note of mysticism in English poetry. Blake was a man from the age of transition. The French revolution had … Read more

Discuss the Satire on English Politics As Portrayed in Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travel claws into contemporary England’s politics and politics satirical and brings out the bitter truths to the world. Gulliver’s Travels can be read and appreciated on more than one level. On one level, it is an engaging story of sea-voyage in which Gulliver meets with fantastic people in strange lands.  For example, in the first … 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

Character Analysis of Belinda in The Rape of the Lock

Belinda portrays the time of aristocratic and fashionable ladies. She is equally beautiful and charming. Early in the poem, the author compares her with the sun (also at the beginning of Canto II). It is as though the sun’s brightness wanes at the sight of her radiant beauty.   The poet invests her almost with divine … Read more