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The main purpose of any satire is to invite the reader to find amusing a particular human vice or idiocy; then the satirist must present the ‘target’ in such a way that we will find constant humour in it. The strange new country of Brobdingnag shows the inhabitants as almost ‘perfect’. In the first passage (pages 167-173) Gulliver is portraying the system of government in England to the King of Brobdingnag. However as the King listens Gulliver worries that his oration isn’t good enough: Imagine with thy self, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country, in a style equal to its merits and felicity. This is satiric because Swift is inviting the reader to believe that their “...own dear native country” is not as good as they might think as this causes mockery of England.
Approximate Word count = 619
Approximate Pages = 2.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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