This document provides an overview and analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels as a satire. It begins with biographical information on Swift as an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet. It then defines satire and identifies two types: comic and corrosive. The document analyzes Gulliver's four voyages as social satires, with the first to Lilliput satirizing politics, the second to Brobdingnag satirizing the human body, the third to Laputa satirizing human intellect, and the fourth to the Land of Houyhnhnms satirizing human moral shortcomings. Key ex

1. Topic: Gulliver‟s Travels as a
satire
Name:Parmar jinal B.
Roll No.:16
M.A. Sem.:1
Sub.: The Neo-Classical Literature
Submitted to:Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of English
M.K. Bhavnagar university

2. Jonathan Swift
 Introduction
 Anglo-Irish Satirist
 Essayist
 Political
Pamphleteer
 Poet
 Cleric

3.  Satire Definition
“Satire is genre of literature, and sometimes
graphic, and performing arts, in which vices,
follies, abuses, and shortcoming are held up
to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming,
individuals corporation, and society itself into
improvement”
 There are two type of satire:
1. Comic satire
2. corrosive satire

4. Gulliver’s Travels as a satire
 A Social Satire
 Four Voyages of Lemuel
Gulliver
1. A Voyage to Lilliput
2. A Voyage to
Brobdingnag
3. A Voyage to Laputa

5. A Voyage to Lilliput
Six inches Lilliputians
Satirizes on politics
Political tactics
“ They bury their dead with their head
directly downwards because they hold
an opinion that after eleven thousands
moons they are all to rises again”

6. A Voyage to Brobdingnag
Satire on Human body
Human talents
Human limitations
“The most pernicious race of little
odious vermin that nature ever suffered
to crawl upon the surface of the earth”
“It stood prominent six feet, and could
not be less than sixteen in
circumference… spots and pimples that
nothing could appear more nauseous.”

7. A Voyage to Laputa
Satire on Human intellect
Human mind
Science ,Philosophy and mathematics
“Their heads were inclined either to the
right or to the left, one of their eyes
turned inward, and the other directly up
to Zenith”
“They made a lot of theories but
practically nill”

8. The Land of Houyhnhnms
Satire on human moral shortcomings
Satire on mankind
“Yet I confess I never say any sensitive
being so detestable on all accounts; and
the more I came near them, the more
hateful they grew”
“Everything is calculated as the Plato‟s
Utopian land „The Republican”

9. Thank You….