Satire and Colonialism in the eighteenth century: 'A Modest Proposal' and 'Gulliver's Travels'

... Satire and Colonialism in the eighteenth century: 'A Modest Proposal' and 'Gulliver's Travels' Jonathan Swift is an eighteen century English writer. I am going to have a look at two of his satirical texts, 'A Modest Proposal' and 'Gulliver's Travels'. They are both satirising The English ruling class and government. I personally think that satire is used by writers and people to make fun of something or other people, but in a more clever way, and sometimes the targets of satire don't realise that are being satirised. Swift was a member of the English Ruling Society during the eighteenth century, but in all of his novels he is satirising the English Ruling Class and the English government. Almost all of the books that he has wrote were published anonymously, because he was also satirising the English Monarchy. After the publication of 'Gulliver's Travel' Swift was nearly arrested and he knew that this

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