Презентация Джонатан Свифт

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Biography J onathan Swift - writer, publicist, social activist, poet, philosopher - was born in Dublin, Ireland November 30, 1667 After the death of his father, a modest judicial officer, mother, moved to England, Jonathan left in the care of his uncle. He provided him a decent education: after a good school nephew became in 1682 a student at Trinity College, Dublin University, where he received education in 1688. In 1702, Swift received his doctorate in theology at Trinity College. Approaches the Whig opposition party. Swift's credibility as a writer and thinker grows. During these years Swift haunts England starts dating in literary circles. Publishes (anonymously, under one cover) "Tale of a Tub" and "The Battle of the Books" (1704)

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with the help of friends from Camp Swift Tories appointed dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral. This place, in addition to financial independence gives him a solid political platform for an open struggle, but moving away from the big London politics. Nevertheless Swift of Ireland continues to actively participate in public life, publishing articles and pamphlets on vital issues. Angrily opposed to social injustice, class arrogance, oppression, religious fanaticism

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" Gulliver's Travels" - the final book by Jonathan Swift, where fantastically allegorically refracted his rich life and creative experience - so that almost every episode of the story looks parable. This contributes to the Swift's favorite image reception - household grotesque, that is, the identification of the strangeness and the enormity of everyday life and everyday consciousness. Normal and monstrous constantly changing places: in the realms of midgets and giants game, this is achieved with the scale of perception 12: 1: 12. This relationship allows the size could not be more clearly shown in the first two parts of the insignificance of big politics and grandeur of human life.

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Swift recent years suffered from a serious mental disorder; in one of his letters he mentioned "deadly grief" to kill him, body and soul. In 1742, after a stroke Swift lost his speech and (part of) intelligence, after which he was declared incompetent. Three years later (1745) Swift died.