Swift's satire was originally intended as an allegorical and severe attack on the vanity and hypocrisy of contemporary courts, statesmen, and political parties.
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- Please match each of the following characters with their respective symbolic meaning.Mr. Medbourne _____ Colonel Killigrew _____Mr. Gascoigne _____Widow Wycherly _____ A: sensual pleasures, greed, vanity,hypocrisy B: sensual pleasures, hypocrisy,greed,vanity C: hypocrisy,greed,vanity,sensual pleasures D: greed, sensual pleasures, hypocrisy, vanity
- Gulliver's Travels is the most enduring work by Jonathan Swift, which is a savage satire in the form of a fabulous travelogue.( )
- Jonathan Swift’s prose satire Gulliver’s Travels describes stories in imagined lands such as ______, where tiny people of 6 inches live.
- As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, ( ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver's Travels.
- The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ______, which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels. A: the Whigs and Tories B: the Senate and the House of Representative C: the Upper House and Lower House D: the House of Lords and the House of Commons