Gulliver's Travel - Jonathan Swift

Question 1

What is Satire?

Answer 1

• It is oblique criticism in humorous form
• It often allows the writer to attract and persuade a larger audience (because of its humour/ it softens the blow of the critique in a certain way) and avoid direct resistance through such means as censorship
• It is laced with irony

Question 2

What is the Travelogue from Swift?

Answer 2

It is often touched by the fantastic so the reader will approach it as allegory and not read it as reality.

Question 3

What are the three (3) levels of Satire?

Answer 3

1) Surface enjoyment and entertainment
2) Universal satire
3) Contextual satire

Question 4

What is “utopia”?

Answer 4

Point = Get us to dream, it is about the desire of wanting something better