Description
Please answer one of the following prompts in a well-developed analytical essay (3-4 paragraphs). Be sure to use textual evidence from the book, and write in the present tense & in the third person.
Make it interesting (even funny… if you are funny enough to make it funny and smart at the same time, which excludes most of you), and write as cleanly and clearly as possible. Please indicate which prompt you have chosen.
1. Choose 2-3 topics that Jonathan Swift seems to be satirizing (human nature, society, politics, government, war, law, etc.) and explain his satirical tactics and the overall intentions of his mockery. In simpler terms, for those of you who fail to understand highfalutin language or detest multi-syllabic words, how and why does Swift mock what he mocks?
2. Discuss how Gulliver has changed or evolved overall from the beginning of his journeys to the end, from Lilliput to the Country of the Houyhnhnms. Give specific examples.
3. Compare any of Swift’s satire in Gulliver’s Travels to Heller’s mocking commentary in Catch-22.
