Jonathan Swift (1667- 1745) is the greatest prose writer of the Restoration Period. He is also a great humorist and a savage satirist. His meat is sometimes too powerful even for a healthy stomach. He is capable of pure fun - as in some of his poems - and even schoolboy jokes. However, there is a core of bitterness in him which revealed itself finally as a mad hatred of mankind. Jonathan Swift hated the animal, Man. In his Modest Proposal, he ironically suggested that famine in Ireland could be eased by Cannibalism, and that the starving children should be used as food. Some fools took this seriously. Jonathan Swift’s other greatest book is Gulliver’s Travels. The first of these is a satire on the two main non- conformist religions- Catholicism and Presbyterianism. Swift tells the story of three brothers Jack(Calvin), Martin(Luther), and Pater(St.), and what they do with their inheritance(the Christian religion). The story is farcial and sometimes wild funny. However, people of this day could perhaps be forgiven if they found blasphemy in it. Gulliver’s Travels hides much of its satire so cleverly that children still read it as a fairy story. It starts off by making fun of mankind(especially England and English politics). Gulliver sees in Lilliput a shrunken human race. In the second part, in the land of the giants, where tiny Gulliver sees human deformities magnified to a feverous pitch. We have something of this mad horror of the human body which obsesses Swift. In the fourth part of the book, where the Houyhnhnms- horses with rational souls and the highest moral instincts- are contrasted with the filthy, depraved Yahoos, who are really human beings. Swift’s hatred of man reaches its climax, Nothing is more powerful or horrible than the moment when Gulliver reaches home and cannot bear the touch of his wife, and her smell is the smell of a Yahoo and makes him want to vomit. Gulliver’s Travels is a fairy story of children, and a serious work for men, so it has never lost either its allure or its topicality. REFERENCES: ENGLISH LITERATURE BY ANTHONY BURGESS. HANDOUT OF MODEST PROPOSAL BY AAY. WRITTEN BY HATİCE ERDOĞAN EVENING GROUP