According to Swift, reason is an instrument that must be used properly too intensive a use of reason is an error of judgement and therefore unreasonable. 2 EXPLAIN in your own words: 1 how Swift has been labelled 2 what his attitude to his contemporary society was 3 how he viewed reason 4 what his favourite means of expression was. 6 He made serious proposals to improve the situation of the poor in Ireland. 5 He supported the English rule in Ireland. 4 Swift became the Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. 3 He went back to Ireland, determined to take his orders. 2 He found a job at the house of Sir William Temple, a retired Whig statesman. 1 Swift’s family was of Irish origin but was forced to leave Ireland at the time of the Revolution of 1688. It is also clear that he did not share the optimism of his age ( I 6.3) or the pride in England of his 1 DECIDE whether the following statements about Swift’s life and works are true or false. What clearly emerges from his works is that he was seriously concerned with politics and society, and that his attitude was conservative. He has been labelled alternatively as a misanthrope, a monster or a lover of mankind. A controversial writer Swift is without doubt one of the most controversial among great English writers. Swift’s later years were marked by the decay of his mental faculties, due to labyrinthine vertigo, and by deafness. In 1729 A Modest Proposal appeared, in which, with irony and bitterness, Swift suggested that the poverty of the Irish people should be relieved by the sale of their children as food for the rich. In 1726 he published his masterpiece, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, known as Gulliver’s Travels.
In April 1713 he was made Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, where he remained for the next thirty years. He produced a great deal of writings for the Tory administration ( I 6.1), which found his talent for argument useful. From 1708 to 1714 he was mainly in London, where he made friends with other leading writers. In 1694 Swift returned to Ireland and became an ordained Anglican priest. Among his best satires were The Battle of the Books and A Tale of a Tub, both published in 1704.
He started to work for Sir William Temple, a scholar and Whig statesman who encouraged him to write his first satirical works.
He left Ireland for England at the time of the Revolution in 1688. 172 Specification 6 | Shaping the English Character Jonathan Swift and the satirical novel 6.10 Literature Jonathan Swift’s life Although his family was English, Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was born and educated in Dublin.
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