Jonathan Swift and His Prose with Reference To The First Book of Gulliver's Travels

Abstract

Jonathan Swift - a prose writer of the 18h century has been charged with the tile of a misanthrope. Indeed Gulliver's 1 book is satire on the smallness of man and his attitude in soothing prose. It is full of irony, sarcasm, invectives and humour. Swift's prose has a rhythmical force. It begins in a realistic manner. The tallest man in Lilliput is 6" of height but his ego touches the height of the sky Different Critics have put their views in different ways. 900

Gulliver's Travels has been the recipient of several designation : from Menippean Satire to a Children's Story, from Proto-Science Fiction to a Forerunner of the Modern novel.

Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's widly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of Human Capability. Warren Montag' argues that Swift was concerned to refute the notion that the individual precedes society, as Defoe's novel seems to suggest. Swift regarded such thought as a dangerous endorsement of Thomas Hobbes' radical political philosophy and for this reason Gulliver repeatedly encounters established societies rather than desolate islands. The Captain who invites Gulliver to serve as a surgeon aboard his ship on the disastrous third voyage is named Robinson.