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Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift. By: Phillip Norselli. Early life. Born November 30 1667 In Dublin Ireland Father was a lawyer Unexpectedly died a few months before he was born. Cont. Second child Only son Mom left him to live with two uncles Attended best school in Ireland Kilkenny Grammar School.

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Jonathan Swift

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  1. Jonathan Swift By: Phillip Norselli

  2. Early life • Born November 30 1667 • In Dublin Ireland • Father was a lawyer • Unexpectedly died a few months before he was born

  3. Cont. • Second child • Only son • Mom left him to live with two uncles • Attended best school in Ireland Kilkenny Grammar School

  4. Jobs • Worked at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin • Was a secretary for his mentor Sir William Temple

  5. Pseudonyms • A fictitious name, especially a pen name • Used one for most of his works • Lemuel Gulliver • Isaac Bickerstaff • M.B. Drapier

  6. Health • Ménière's disease • Symptoms of Ménière's disease occur suddenly and can arise daily or as infrequently as once a year • usually involves a whirling dizziness that forces the person to lie down

  7. Writings • Known as the best satirist of all time • Satire- the use of irony, sarcasm, or ridicule • Lots of poetry • Essays • Books

  8. Gullivers Travels • Swift's best known full-length work • a classic of English literature • 1726 • Gulliver's Travels has been adapted several times for film and television

  9. Cont. • Book is divided into four parts • Part I: A Voyage To Lilliput • On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and wakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people one-twelfth the size of normal human beings

  10. Part II • A Voyage to Brobdingnag • When the sea vessel Adventure is steered off course by storms and forced to go in to land for want of fresh water, Gulliver is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 80 feet tall • His daughter takes care of Gulliver • He endures adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey

  11. Part III • A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg and Japan • Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates and he is stranded on a desolate rocky island • he is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom based on the arts of music and mathematics but unable to use these for practical means. In it they describe a device as The Engine which is possibly the first literary description in history of something resembling a computer

  12. Part IV • A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms • Gulliver was hesitant to return back to sea but does • his crew was captured by Dutch and Japanese pirates in order to force them to also become pirates • He is abandoned and meets a horse that speaks english • He is then rescued, against his will, by a Portuguese ship that returns him to his home in England

  13. Other Famous works • The prose play A Tale of a Tub • 1729 - A Modest Proposal

  14. Essays A Meditation upon a Broomstick The Examiner The Intelligencer A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately Entered into Holy Orders Poems A Description of the Morning The Place of the Damn'd A Pastoral Dialogue On a Very Old Glass Other Works

  15. End of life • his Meniere's Disease became more acute • Began to lose memory • 1738 he slipped gradually into senility • Suffered a paralytic stroke • Died on October 19, 1745

  16. Any Question???

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