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Satirical Meaning in Gulliver's Travels

cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in o...

Madness in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV

This essay describes the evolution of Gulliver's rejection of humanity in preference for the society of a race of intelligent hors...

Yahoos in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

As Gulliver learns their language he has come to hear the word "Yahoo" over and over and he has little understanding of who or wha...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

form of thought a solution may be found to this problem. At this point he notes that a child, just "dropped from its dam" would ...

Gulliver’s Travels and A Modest Proposal

not the only way, and it may not be the best way of thinking either. Although one may argue he does not transform completely and u...

Martin Luther King Jr. and Jonathan Swift

speed toward gaining political independence, but we stiff creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch ...

Swift's Use of Irony in "A Modest Proposal"

personage than William Makepeace Thackeray, who loved Gulliver but who thought that Proposals moral was "horrible, shameful, unman...

Vexing and the Writings of Jonathan Edwards and Jonathan Swift

a slender thread, with the flames of the divine wrath flashing about it, and ready every moment to singe it, and burn it asunder. ...

Slavery Reflected in the Works of Henrik Ibsen, Frederick Douglass, and Jonathan Swift

In six pages this research paper discusses how slavery manifests itself in one form or another in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Trav...

Utopian Analysis of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Swift employed satire to convey his message, and his target was, naturally, Europe, as it existed during the sixteenth century, bu...

Gulliver's Development

first he must prove himself worthy of trusting: "My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the emperor and his court, ...

Good and Bad of Human Nature as Portrayed in Literature

Swift, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Heart of Darkness" by William Conrad. Gullivers Travels "Gullivers Travels" is a b...

Juvenalian v. Horatian Satire

way, this scrutiny becomes a very valuable tool for literature. After reading these two stories and comparing and contrasting the...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Propaganda and Literature Relating to British Imperialism

... The English in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as driven by ideological convictions, by a belief ...

'Outsider' and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

It is irrational to think that one is any larger than he/she should be or has a right to be. It is also irrational to think that ...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and Relations Between Tenant and Landlord

In 5 pages this paper discusses Swift's satirical depiction of Anglo Irish landlord and Irish peasant tenant relations in A Modest...

A Policing and Police History

This is an informational research paper consisting of ten pages in which policing dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumeria...

China's Eighteenth Century Economic Growth and Imperial Power

In four pages the eighteenth century Chinese Qing Dynasty is examined in terms of imperial power transformation and economic growt...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Analysis of Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal

people to propose a number of ill-conceived schemes that would "fix" social and economic ills with miraculous ease (Wittkowsky 85)...

Generational Writers on Loss and Death Concepts

is he doesnt necessarily find much of anything on the final journey. Though he finally adapts himself back to humanity following h...

Introductions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flander

"perhaps, after my death, it may be better known; at present it would not be proper, no not though a general pardon should be issu...

Man’s Relationship to Nature in Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Along the way, he encounters dangers but somehow manages to survive to reach his island destination, where he will stay for nearly...

William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In eight pages these works are contrasted and compared in terms of the relationship between the marriage concept and the female ch...

Literary Analysis of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

various and sundry obscurities that represent such a supposedly functional society to realize that this was yet another of the aut...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

A Satirical Solution to a Crisis of Day Care

In an essay consisting of five pages that uses A Model Proposal by Jonathan Swift as a paper model the writer facetiously asserts ...

Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders and Newgate Prison

is determined that she will not be penniless as her mother and father must have been. Neither she nor her children would be pennil...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...