Questions and Tasks
1. What role did Sir William Temple play in Swift’s literary career?
2. Speak about Swift’s first satire.
3. What did Swift criticize in his pamphlets?
4. When was Swift’s masterpiece “Gulliver’s Travels” written and why
did it make a great sensation?
5. Whom did Swift mean to ridicule when describing the country of
Lilliput and the Lilliputians?
6. At whom is Swift’s satire directed when he describes the flying
island and the way taxes are collected from the people?
7. What was Swift’s attitude towards England’s war policy?
8. Why did Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” become popular in all
languages?
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