Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1991

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

McGuirk, Carol

Abstract

Although Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726, Swift's outrage at personal, social, economic, and political slavery can still be felt today, and his work continues to be significant. Criticizing institutions and human nature's tendency to trust those who wield political authority, Swift condemns our reluctance to safeguard our freedom. Swift exposes submissiveness and its consequence: a loss of liberty. Whether Swift uses allusions to Irish history, direct personal statement, or Gulliver as persona to reveal the self-destructive consequences of passivity, he "deliberately taunts those who might be so wise and yet remain so stupid" (Bloom 34).

Extent

66 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14713

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