Introducing Jonathan Swift in English

Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, the capital of Ireland, to a very poor family, and Jonathan Swift was not born yet.

My father died. At the age of 15, he was sent to what was then Trinity College Dublin (named after the Catholic "Trinity"). Swift had always been disgusted with the theology and cumbersome philosophies taught at university, and when he graduated, he received a "charter degree" diploma that prevented him from finding a good job in society.

Swift was exposed to the social politics of the time at an early age, and began to develop a talent for analyzing things and a keen sense of observation. After the death of his uncle in 1688 and the political turmoil in Ireland, Swift had to interrupt his master's studies and go to England to live with his mother in Leicester, England. Sir Temple had retired to the countryside by this time, and was writing his memoirs.

Swift's talents were highly regarded by the knight, who introduced him to William III and sent Swift to London to urge the king to allocate funds for Parliament. It was also during this time that Swift met Esther Jonsson, who was only eight years old at the time, the orphan daughter of a domestic servant. Swift taught her to read and nicknamed her "Stella".

Between 1710 and 1713 he lived in London for two and a half years. During his time in London, he became embroiled in partisan struggles and was highly regarded by the leaders of the Tory. When the Tories came to power in 1710, he became editor-in-chief of the party's Gazette.

The Tories were large landowners, and war was not good for them, so they attacked the belligerent policies of the Whigs in order to appeal to the war-loathing mentality of the English people. Swift wrote a number of pamphlets exposing the greed and opposition to the war among the Whigs, the most famous of which was "The Conduct of the Confederates and the Former Cabinet in Initiating and Conducting the War."

The Brief Book of the Tripir has a deeper and broader significance, as it expresses the cry of the Irish people for freedom and independence from British colonial rule. After this incident, Swift was warmly loved by the masses of the people and became a hero to the Irish people. When he returned from his last visit to England in 1726, the people of Dublin rang the bell and raised a fire for him, and organized a guard of honour to return him to his apartment.

In his later works, Swift denounced the rotten politics of the British ruling circles.

Gulliver's Travels

And to a certain extent, it exposes the exploitative nature of the bourgeoisie's mercenary desires. It was during this period that Swift completed his monumental satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels.

Since then, he has also written many satirical works full of wrath. The most famous pamphlet is called "A Trivial Proposal to Keep the Poor Children of Ireland from a Burden to Their Parents" (1729). Using "anti-grammar", Swift offered a "fair, comprehensive and workable proposal" pointing out how poor the Irish people had become, and offering a powerful indictment of the British rulers who brutally exploited the Irish people.

Swift's evening scene is bleak. He suffered from encephalopathy at a young age, and in his later years his deafness and headaches worsened, and in the last few years he became insane and often lethargic. The brilliant satirist died on October 19, 1745. Buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral.