The Satire Of Jonathan Swift Revealed
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During the eighteenth century there was an incredible upheaval of
commercialization in London, England. As a result, English society underwent
significant, “changes in attitude and thought”, in an attempt to obtain the
dignity and splendor of royalty and the upper class (McKendrick,2). As a ....
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.... English society's belief in superiority over all
other cultures. Yet, despite his belief in superiority, Swift shows that
Gulliver is not as great as he imagines when the forces of nature call upon him
to relieve himself. Gulliver comments to the reader that before hand he, “was
under great difficulties between urgency and shame”, and after the deed says
that he felt, “guilty of so uncleanly an action” (Norton,2051). By revealing to
the reader Gulliver's shame in carrying out a basi ....
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