This document provides biographical information about Jonathan Swift and summaries the major works and themes in his book "Gulliver's Travels". It notes that Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 to an English father and Irish mother. It describes the four voyages in Gulliver's Travels where Gulliver visits Lilliputians, the giants in Brobdingnag, the flying island of Laputa, and the rational horses called Houyhnhnms. Each voyage satirizes aspects of human society, politics, science, and morality through comparisons with the different peoples and cultures Gulliver encounters.

3.  Born on November 30th 1667 in Dublin, Ireland.
 father was an Englishman.
 Mother was Abigail Erick.
 Father died suddenly before his was born.
 Grew up fatherless and dependent on his uncles .

4.  1673-Attended Kilkenny School at age 6. Was the best school at
the time.
 College at fifteen. Achieved his Bachelor of Arts in February
1686, by special favour.
 Wanted to pursue his M.A. at Trinity but was forced to flee to
England to live with his mother’s relative, Sir William Temple.
 Became Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

6. A Social Satire
Four Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver
A Voyage to Lilliput
A Voyage to Brobdingnag
A Voyage to Laputa
The land of Houyhnhnms

7.  Six inches Lilliputians.
 Satirizes on politics .
 Political tactics.
 Lilliputians are tine it shows
narrowness of mind.
 He use Lilliputians as puppets.
“ 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”

8.  Satire on Human body
 Human talents
 Human limitations
 The increased comic effect is
achieved mainly at the expense
of Gulliver
 Gulliver was so small that king
can just lift him with his hand
and stroke him as if he were a
pet.
“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.”

9.  Satire on Human intellect
 Human mind
 Science, Philosophy and
mathematics
 In this voyage satire on
philosopher and power is shown
by use of technology .
 King’s unawareness
 Unstableness
 Christianity
“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”

10.  Satire on human moral
shortcomings
 Compression of man with
animal
 Animals are cultured
 It is also shows that man living
degenerated
 Selfishness of human nature
 Four lags are good and two lags
are bad
“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.