LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Jane Austen
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Hardy
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Swift
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) is commonly regarded as the towering misanthrope of English letters.
Detailed explanation-2: -Swift is notorious for being misanthropist in the last part of the “Gulliver’s Travels”. Swift has to face the allegation of being misanthropist for during whole of his life. It is because the critics attributed Gulliver’s blunders to Swift.
Detailed explanation-3: -But Swift most violently attacks the human being and shows his utter hatred towards the whole mankind in the Book IV. For this reason, Swift is called a misanthrope, a hater of mankind.
Detailed explanation-4: -Man can either fall and become more like an animal, a slave to the sensual, or man can transcend the physical and become closer to God. Swift believes man exists further down the chain and rejects the notion that man is capable of exceeding its place on this chain. This is the root of his misanthropy.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gulliver is the resident misanthrope, detesting corrupted human nature and desiring to live as a recluse.