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A 24 page paper which examines how Swift employed Gulliver’s four voyages to address such popular issues during the eighteenth century as the use of science as a way of achieving utopian society, religious attitudes and government/politics, and how some of his satire was transformed into reality in the twentieth century. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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the popular issues of the day. They were not afraid to express their views or to challenge conventional concepts. Swift was a man of many interests, including politics,
religion, philosophy and science. He never missed an opportunity to engage in lively debate on any and all subjects. Swift did not have any interest or desire to
conform to the thoughts and attitudes of the majority. He was often a social outcast whose opinions made him different from his fellow citizens. He supported Tories, a
conservative English political party that were popular during the reign of Queen Anne, but following her death, they were defeated and Swift was forced to return to his native Ireland.
Jonathan Swift, the man, was in life the way his most famous character, Lemuel Gulliver, was in art: always on the outside looking in. Introduction Gullivers Travels,
published in 1727, was Jonathan Swifts satire of one mans journey to find an ideal society. Lemuel Gulliver was a forty-year-old married man who was having a mid-life crisis.
He wanted to see other lands and learn about people and societies that were different from his own. First, he traveled to Lilliput, where there was a constant
state of war between the Lilliputians and their bitter enemies, the Blefuscudians; next, Gulliver ventured to Brobdingnag, a place where there was no war; in Book III, he entered Laputa,
where scientific reason reigned supreme; and in Book IV, he descended to the magical land of the Houyhnhnms, which was governed by a superior species of horses. This quartet
of voyages enabled Swift to address popular issues of his time. They included religious attitudes that were being questioned during the enlightenment, practices of politics/government (and the persecution that
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