... is the product of a mind deeply concerned with political matters. In the book many figures which seem to be imaginary are meant to depict real personages. There are many political allusions abound in the Travels. Some are to the events of the end of Queen Anne's reign and others to the reign of George I. London at the time of the novel ... of A Modest Proposal. This is because the start seems nothing more than an account of the distress of Ireland "It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town..and see the streets, roads crowded with beggars." Yet as the passage co...

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• Grade Level: High School