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A World Literature Philosophy Symposium

In eight pages an imaginary symposium discusses the dichotomies of the individual versus society, passion versus reason and featur...

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...

Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

Voyages in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper analyzes the Lilliput voyage's significance in terms of cementing the foundation for the other voyages fe...

Summarizing A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift

In three pages this essay presents a summary and examination of the major points featured in A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. ...

Sanity, Insanity and Society From A Swiftian Viewpoint

Jonathan Swift's satiric work A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth provides ...

Two Types of Western Irony in the Works of Joseph Conrad and Jonathan Swift

In twenty pages this paper discusses two types of Western literary irony and how each is represented in the works of Jonathan Swif...

The Use of Dialect by Swift, Blake and Conrad

Joseph Conrad's use of dialect and other literary techniques was influenced by many writers who came before. This paper links his ...

Jonathan Spence's Presentation of The Taiping Revolution in God's Chinese Son The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

We can look at this and begin to understand that China was going through a great and difficult period in relationship to many real...

Scientific Attitudes During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment Periods

is granted to him to seek after the truth. Science is the legitimate and beloved daughter of the Church. She must have confidence ...

America as Viewed by Jonathan Swift

convinced that they have achieved unity between these often disparate political entities despite the obvious fact that nothing cou...

Questioning the Past in Literature of the Enlightenment

It seems ludicrous to picture a womans toilette as dangerous, yet the humor, in part, derives from the fact that men of this era a...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

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...

Concepts of Jonathan Edwards and Ralph Waldo Emerson

needed to really listen in order to find it and thus live by it. Edwards was a man of God, and a man who altered the way in whi...

U.S. and Terrorism Causes

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

Thematic Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

the Lilliputian emperors palace from destruction by urinating on the fire threatening to consume her Imperial Majestys Apartment.(...

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift and the Human Condition

finds himself in Lilliput, which is in a constant state of war with their enemies, the Blefuscudians over the ridiculous issue of ...

Politics and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

by Swifts outstanding ability to use satire in his ongoing critique of society. In each Swift uses satire to ridicule those custo...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

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

Jonathan Ellis and Rene Tissen's The Seven Deadly Sins of Management

your colleagues (those enemies trying to beat you to your rightful place) are now replaced with a lust for gain" (Ellis; Tissen, 2...

Comparing Sermons of Samson Occom and Jonathan Edwards

Within this framework of using the condemned mans impending death as a general warning, Occom also illustrates how alcohol had pro...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Literature, the Human Condition, and Universal Truths

themselves, Voltaires message is clear: these human flaws of vanity, fickleness, greed, and misplaced optimism will never die and ...

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Satire

to create the satiric effect is emphasizing the similarities between Lilliputians and his own compatriots. (Borovaia149). Howev...

Satire of Jonathan Swift

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...

Structuralism v. Humanism

to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...

Freedom and Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull

or another Jonathan cannot deny that within himself that wants to fly higher and faster, more perfect than before. Eventually, t...

Social Change Through Theater and West Side Story

Story from Historical, Social, Cultural, Political and Religious Perspectives Surprisingly, the original idea for West Side Stor...

Satire and Utopia in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

of war, and its punishments for crime in the name of law and order were extreme. To Jonathan Swift, England more closely resemble...