Содержание
- 2. The greatest of the prose satirists of the age of the Enlightenment was Jonathan Swift .
- 3. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, but he came from an English family. His father died
- 4. He was supported by his uncle and from his very boyhood he learned how miserable it
- 5. After graduating from the college he went to London and became private secretary to Sir William
- 6. Jonathan Swift improved his education at Sir William's library and in 1692 he took his Master
- 7. He got a place of vicar in Ireland and worked there for a year and a
- 8. He wrote much and burned most of what he wrote.
- 9. Soon he grew tired of the lonely life in Ireland and was glad to accept Sir
- 10. Swift lived and worked there until Temple's death in 1699.
- 11. The satire The Battle of the Books (1697) marked the beginning of Swift's literary career.
- 12. It depicts a war between books of modern and ancient authors. The book is an allegory
- 13. Swift's first success was A Tale of a Tub (1704), a biting satire on religion. In
- 14. When a ship is attacked by a whale the seamen throw an empty tub into the
- 15. The satire is written in the form of a story about three brothers symbolizing the three
- 16. In 1713 Swift was made Dean of St Patric's Cathedral in Dublin. Living in Dublin Swift
- 17. In 1726 Swift's masterpiece Gulliver's Travels appeared. All Swift's inventive genius and savage satire were at
- 18. Gulliver's Travels
- 19. Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels made him one of the greatest English prose writers of the 18th
- 20. In the book Swift attacks his contemporary world and the social md political system of England.
- 21. Originally the novel was to be the story of an imaginary world voyage by a certain
- 22. Swift made his acquaintance in Ireland, in the country of Cavan, where the writer used to
- 23. On another occasion he lifted a poor widow's cow out of pound where it had been
- 24. On the first voyage Gulliver is shipwrecked and finds himself in Lilliput. To his surprise, people
- 25. . Their two struggling parties, the Big-Endians and Little-Endians, distinguish themselves only by the high and
- 26. Whoever jumps the highest before the king gets the highest post. In this Swift satirizes the
- 27. This is a country where giants live. Gulliver appears as ridiculous to these people of enormous
- 28. In the third part the author takes Gulliver to Laputa and the Academy in Lagado. In
- 29. In the description of the Academy Swift satirizes all kinds of inventors for their attempts to
- 31. Скачать презентацию