HUM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift, Brobdingnag
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Composed and comprehensive to humans as we can contemplate about it: love of science, knowledge: looked through nature in great details through a microscope, telescope. Act, reason and study to make things happen. Increases in fiction due to the fascination that anything is possible such as things in gulliver"s travels. Literature is the imitation of nature and the idea in impression of nature as a whole/perfection. Makes you a better person: how did alexander pope and voltaire affect this period, alexander pope: friends with jonathan swift, serious and talented. Neoclassical writer. (cid:440)essay on man(cid:441) (1734): world is made by all benevolent god, all nature is the work of arts. When there is evil, it contributes to the whole good: voltaire"s candide (1759): candide is a young man, name"s meaning naive, innocent, he lives in a castle. Falls in love with a girl and is caught with it. Soldier and traveled, ended up in the land that currently experiencing earthquakes.
