A ten page paper showing how Jonathan Swift, through his characterization of the passionless, horse-like Houyhnhnms, satirized the Rationalists of his own day. The paper argues that in trying to emulate the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver is cutting himself off from his own species, just as pure rationalists cut themselves off from their own hearts.
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A five-page paper looking at these two essays by Jonathan Swift and Judy Brady in terms of the reason satire was employed to convey their message. The paper concludes that in both these pieces, the authors present their material satirically in order to allow the reader to see their real points more clearly and effectively, without one s natural defensiveness getting in the way. No additional sources. In Gulliver's Travels, there is a myriad of meaning buried in an entertaining and macabre representation of period writing. This 6 page paper argues that Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels must have seemed inaccessible to the early modern reader with it's underlying theme of mocking the Puritan ethic, it's satirical form and the romantic style which incorporated absurdism.