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=Jonathan Swift=

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Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer. He was born at 30. November 1667 in Dublin, and were the son of Jonathan Swift Sr. and Abigail Erick. Jonathan Swift Sr. died seven months before Jonathan Swift was born. Therefor his mother had to raise him by herself. When Jonathan Swift was only a few months he was stolen to England by his nurse. It wasn’t until he was four, that he was found by the police and taken back to his mother in Ireland. His mother decided to move back to England, but didn’t have the economy to support Jonathan, and because of that he was sent to his wealthy uncle in Ireland, by the name Godwin. Jonathan studied at Kilkenny Grammar School, and after that he went to the Trinity College. At school he wasn’t a good student, but was very notable because of his headstrong behavior. When the anti-catholic demonstrations started in Ireland in 1688, he chose to move back to England and became a secretary in a household, which he wasn’t satisfied with. That’s why he in 1695 moved back to Ireland again, and became a priest in the Church of Ireland. In the time that he was a secretary in England, he was the teacher of a young girl, called Esther Johnson, also called Stella. She turned out to be very important in his life, and chose to move to Ireland, so she could be near him. Some rumors said that they got married in 1716. Unfortunately Stella died in 1728 and Jonathan kept a lock of her hair by him, until the day he died.

After that he moved to London and had a lot of success with his essays. He tried to open a political career among the Whigs, but changed his political views and then started to support the Tories. When George 1. was crowned the Tories lost power and Jonathan moved back to Ireland again. It was said that Jonathan Swift had Alzheimer’s disease, and because of that many thought he was insane. He died in Dublin on October 19, 1745.

//As people are not eaten, butchering them is of no use ( //**Jonathan Swift) **

Jonathan Swift has written a lot of satires His first books where:

//“A tale of tub” and “the battle of books.”// (Both satires)

After that, a long list of books, essays, tracts, periodical, poems followed. There are even some of his personal correspondences, which have survived the years. “A tale of tub” is his first book. It is a satire and it shows a lot of the themes and stylistic methods, he used in his later work. It hit its target with hard critic and it tries to make the targets seem silly and stupid. After all it is an enormous parody; which consists a large number of smaller parodies. Then the battle of books came out, which is a short satire. It is a way of interring the debate, about the ancients vs. the moderns, where he interred on the ancient side. It was the start of making a debate into a book.

The satire is an artform/written stile, which is supposed to make fun of the target, and even tear it down, everything was criticized, the government, the Nabors, even the royal was a hit by the satire. It was always made in a way, which would make the crowd laugh. His most famous story is Gulliver’s travels some call it his masterpiece. It is a critic of the human way of life, seen from many aspects; he makes satire of all the new thing. Especially mechanical thing, which came in the enlightenment age. It was a story of four books. That is a satire of the English colonization of the world, and their first meet with the natives, and the English overpower.