This slide is about brief introduction of Jonathan Swift and his master piece The Tale of Tub

2. Jonathan swift
and
Tale of the Tub
-Nidhi Jethava
-Kishan Jadav

3. About Swift’s life
-Swift was born in Dublin, in 1667.
-His father dying before Jonathan’s birth, the boy was thrown upon the charity of an
uncle, who paid
for his education in Ireland.
- Pen name : Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier, Lemuel Gulliver, Wagstaff, Esq.
-Occupation : Satirist, Essayist, Political Pamphleteer, Poet, Priest.
- Language : English
-Alma mater : Trinity College, Doblin
- Family : Father- Jonathan Swift
Mather – Abigail Erick
- Friends : Close friend Thomas Sheridan, Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John
Arburthnot.
- Education : the Kilkenny school, Dublin University ( Trinity College, Dublin) in 1682

4. Notable Works
1. A Tale of a Tub (1704)– Ridiculed the extravagances of religion, literature, and academia
2. The Battle the Books(1697)- mock debate b/w ancient and modern authors
3. The Tatler – Popular English periodicals to which Swift contributed essays
4. Gulliver’s Travels (1720)– Swift’s satirical masterpiece written while living in Ireland
5. Modest Proposal – Published in 1729 and criticizes the English treatment of the Irish

5. Major Concepts
-Jonathan used satire to call attention to the social and
political state of Ireland at his time.
-A Modest Proposal is a satirical work about the poverty in
Ireland.
-Gulliver’s travels is satire about the state of English
politics, law system, and education.

6. Swift died on October 19, 1745.
He wrote a Latin epitaph for
himself, which Yeats translated
into English :
Swift sailed into his rest;
Savage indignation there
Cannot lacerate his breast.
Imitate him if you dare,
World- besotted traveller; he
Served human liberty.

7. A Tale Of Tub

8. About A Tale of Tub
- A Tale of a Tub, also published in 1704, written in 1696, is
regarded by many as
Swift’s best work.
- It certainly reveals his power at its highest.
- It is a religious allegory, perhaps suggested by the work
of Bunyan, on three men
1. Peter- who stand for Roman Catholic Church
2. Jack – who represents the Dissenters
3. Martin – the personification of the Anglican and
Lutheran Churches.

9. - Each of the three has a coat left to him by his father,
and they have many
experiences, beginning with the changes that they
make on the coats that have
been left to them.
- This book is attack on ‘enthusiasm’ of Roman
Catholics and Dissenters alike, and
culminates in a fierce attack upon jack.

10. - But, though Martin escapes comparatively lightly,
Swift’s contempt is poured on so
many of the fundamental principles of religion that
the book led many to suspect
his own Christianity.
- Indeed, the scope of the work widens until it becomes
a merciless dissection of
human nature in general, and of intellectual pride and
religion hypocrisy in particular.

11. -A Tale of a Tub is full of wit, and brilliant in its
imaginative power and the incisiveness
of its thought.
- The style is terse and has a sustained vigour , pace ,
and colourfulness which Swift
did not equal in his later works.
- Many years after the writing of the book he was
heard to mutter, while looking
at a copy, “ Good, God !what a genius I had when I
wrote that book !”