Imed Lassoued
University of
Manouba, Tunisia
Abstract
Man
has always been seen as a reasonable creature whose actions are the
manifestations of reason. As a matter of fact, the dominance of reason has
resulted in the establishment of rules and norms that enhanced the superiority
of man in general and the Western man in particular during the eighteenth
century. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, however, presents us with another
picture. This essay will succinctly bring to the forefront this picture and
show how Swift excelled in using some rhetorical devices like satire, irony,
burlesque, and grotesque to castigate mankind.
Key words:
Horacian Satire, Juvenelian Satire, mankind, society, British literature.
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