Jonathan Swift the master of satire deeply cared for society and people. His desire to improve society and humanity inspired him to write Gullivers Travels and A Modest Proposal.

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Reformer Swift         An Anglo-Irishman who desperately desired to be English but destined with the Irish, Jonathan Swift was a man of mystery. His writings were often published anonymously. Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, printed with the name Lemuel Gulliver. Only a few knew that the real author was Dr. Swift, the distinguished Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland. In the famous pamphlet, “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public,” or, now simply known as “A Modest Proposal,” Swift became the Irish patriot defending them against the English oppressive policies. Both works of literature illustrate Swift’s aim of  improving human conduct-enabling the people to be more decent and humane. Swift uses “A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels to influence government policies on poverty and social repression to reform the vices, follies, and foibles through satire and metaphors.
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        To many people take Gulliver’s Travels, at first glance, to be simply a fantasticnarrative of a common man and his encounters with unusual locations andpeople through several journeys, however further inspection reveals Swift’s truepurpose of creativity-satire. Using the contemporary style of the TravelNarrative, Swift is able to insert his own personal criticisms of modern lifeinto the experience of Gulliver. Throughout the novel Gulliver comes across many characters one of them being the Lilliputians. “The small people” or Lilliputians are used to bring about state control and religious minimization. They had a strict and concise government often portraying life as complicated ...

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