Presentation: Jonathan Sweet

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Jonathan Swift Faculty of Philology March 24, 2022 Student of Group 2(9)A: Galymzhanova Akzharkyn

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Content 01 Jonathan Swift 02 Childhood 03 Swift’s Literary Position and Works 04 Introduction to Gulliver’s Travels 18.11.2023 2

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01 Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift, November 30, 1667, Dublin, Ireland - Anglo-Irish satirical writer, publicist, philosopher, poet and public figure, Anglican priest . He is best known as the author of the satirical fiction novel Gulliver's Travels, in which he wittily ridiculed human and social vices. Swift died on the 19th of October, 1745, in Dublin. 18.11.2023 3

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02 Childhood o Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland, of an English family, which had important connections but little wealth. o Through the generosity of an uncle, he was educated at Kilkenny Grammar School and then Trinity College in Dublin. o Between 1689 and 1699 he worked as a private secretary to a distant kinship Sir William Temple, a retired diplomat. o And there he also received a first-rate education in politics through contact with Temple and many other well-known politicians, learning much about hypocrisy , deception and corruption in the political world.

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Swift’s Literary Position and Works 18.11.2023 5Literary Position  Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose.  Swift is a master satirist. Even today, he is still regarded as a national hero in Ireland.  Gulliver’s Travels (1726), his greatest satiric work03

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o Jonathan’s best fictional work Was published in 1726 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Samuel Gulliver. The book contains four parts, each dealing with one particular voyage during which Gulliver meets with extraordinary adventures on some remote island after he has met with shipwreck of piracy of some other misfortune. 18.11.2023 604 Introduction to Gulliver’s Travels

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Lemuel Gulliver o Narrator of novel o Middle-aged, middle class, British o Intelligent, well- educated o Unaffectionate to wife o A doctor on a Royal Navy ship who washes up on the shores of several fictional countries. Mrs. Mary Burton I s Gulliver's wife. He only states her name at the beginning of the novel, and thereafter refers to her as his wife. She is mentioned only during his rare time in England. Captain Pritchard is the head of the ship named Antelope. He controls Gulliver's first voyage in which a storm overtakes the ship, leaving Gulliver stranded on the strange land of Lilliput. 18.11.2023 7

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