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A 6 page paper which examines how the Irish church representative Swift used satire as a way of hiding his criticism of the English Whig Party. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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he was an English Whig, as were many of his countrymen following the Irish Restoration but early in the eighteenth century, he tentatively turned his attentions to the Tories.
Despite her occasional support for Whig supported wars, Queen Anne was also a Tory so Swift spent most of his time honing his diplomatic skills by lobbying the monarch and
the Whigs to supply aid to the Irish church, which both factions refused to grant. This infuriated Swift, who wasted no time in forging an alliance with the Tory
party.1 After the Queens death in 1714, the Tories quickly fell out of favor, and when George I ascended to the throne, the Whigs quickly usurped the Tory power
base, which did not bode well for either the Irish or the Irish church.2 Thereafter, Swift devoted himself to being "a lifelong propagandist for the Tory cause"3 and edited
the partys official newspaper, The Examiner. At the time, Swifts chief ally was St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke, a dedicated Tory democrat while his main adversary was the Whig
Partys Sir Robert Walpole.4 While a member of the Torys Scriblerus Club, Swift began experimenting with satirical writing, recognizing this would be a way of discreetly getting his message
across while solidifying his professional literary reputation.5 His greatest satirical triumph, Gullivers Travels, was first published in October of 1726, and quickly garnered a reputation as being "an allegory
of eighteenth-century life."6 As Swifts enemies would soon painfully discover, the novels parody of "Whiggish hubris would strike with special ferocity."7 For those who are unfamiliar with the
storys plot, 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
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