Jonathan Swift
Christianity
The Lady's Dressing Room
A Description of the Morning
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Jonathat Swift was an important writer,consider as the fathe of the anarchist ideals.
ReplyDeleteHis most famous work the Gulliver's Travels presents a satire of humans life or condition also makes a parody of the traveler's tales.
He also invented the famous name Vanessa.Swift use that name in the title of a poem Cadenus and Vanessa(1726)in which Cadenus was an anagram that means Decanus (Dean) and Vanessa a neologism.
ReplyDeleteSwift was a Dean. About his religion, he believe more in social, political and moral concrete aspects of human nature that in philosophy and theology.
ReplyDeleteSwift satire the roman catholic church in Tale of a Tub (1694-1697) .That tale is about the excess of religion and the biblical interpretation.
Personal opinion: What a wonderful writer because he satires the "powerful" and "sacred" catholic church and their interpretation about the bible.
Christianity born from Judaism, for me it is almost the same with different name for some elements the only remarkable difference is the new testament.
ReplyDeleteThe lady dressing room. Again Swift satires the time and the entire events that happens while a lady is dressing in the room.
ReplyDeleteFive hours wrote Swift referring with that about the time that the woman spend in a room dressing.Also Swift remark how woman use beauty products.
I think that Swift with that poem that to tell us what happen while a woman is dressing in a room.
A description on the morning is a poem about the social status of London, commerce and business and how that elements later affects the life of the average people of London.
ReplyDeleteAgain Swift reflecting the real situation or life of the society in his works.
By the way, do not feel offended because of my raw commentaries about the catholic church and Christianity.
ReplyDeleteI respect the believes and ideas of the others, I just share may opinion about that "rotten" institution.
Jonathan Swift was a talented man, he was not only an Anglo-Irish satirist, he was also a poet, an essayist and still more important he was a Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1713. Among his works include: Tale of a Tub (1704), A Journal to Stella (1710-13), Gulliver's Travels (1726), "A Modest Proposal" (1729), "The Lady's Dressing Room" (1732); among others. Gulliver's Travels seem to be very interesting because of the way it is presented. This work has frequently been considered as an infant work; however it is a ferocious satire of society and human condition.
ReplyDeleteIt is fascinating to know how Christianity became the majority religion within the Roman empire with the appearance of the New Testament which shows the lives and teachings of Jesus and St. Paul. In the New Testament is presented Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. When one reads the New Testament we can realize that St. Paul dedicated his life to preaching the new faith. I think that all these testimonies were evident to convert pagans into Christianity.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Swift was a very known writer, among his work we find Gulliver's Travels (one of my favorite books). He represented his ideas about religion and society through his works. During his early career he didn't use his real name, he used the pseudonym Gulliver Swift.
ReplyDeleteChristiany was born with Jesus Christ , hence the name'christianity'. Everybody is free to believe whatever they want, we just need to keep in mind that we have to respects the ideas of others if we want them to respect ours.
ReplyDeleteA description of the mroning is a poem that deals with different social and economic issues going on in London at the time. Trade, commerce and the effect it had on the people who lived in the city.
ReplyDeletePersonally I think The Lady's dressing room is kind of sexist, at least it portrays the efforts of poor Celia, trying to be presnetable and accepted in society. It is true that he might be criticizing the amount of time and money women spend in their appereace but remember that she was doing all that to be presentable and acceptable in a society ruled mostly by men, she was trying to please them!!
ReplyDelete“The Lady’s Dressing Room” is a satire written by Jonathan Swift in 1732, which emphasizes the time women spend in a dressing room. In this poem Swift satirizes female vanity. What I can notice is that Swift was against makeups or all those things some women use. He thought that human nature is essentially good and that those makeups are unnecessary for us.
ReplyDeleteA Description of the Morning is a poem written by Jonathan Swift in 1709. The poem discusses some important topics related with the social state of London and also the life of Londoners during that time.
ReplyDeleteWas Constaine the author of the Catholic Church's domain? Yes.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was converted to Cristianity, he established the Catolic Church as the official one for the Roman Empire, he did it as a political movement in order to gain popularity. This fact, povoked the raisement of the Cristianity in the largest part of the old world, the Roman Empire.
It is said that “A tale of a tub” was one of the greatest works written by Jonathan Swift. In his work, he wrote about the corruption within religion. In some other works he criticized and ridiculed the way of worshiping and preaching of religious people that lived at that time. In one of his main works, Gulliver´s travels, he criticized strongly to society and human condition.
ReplyDeleteChristianity was able to transform many people´s lives….. Lots of individuals found relief and salvation for their souls and some others that lived like pagans were changed. Christianity emerged in a world divided by different religious beliefs but in spite of this, it spread and thriumped.
ReplyDeleteThe Lady´s Dressing Room illustrates all the things that a woman named Celia has to do in order to look beautiful and attractive in public, but the reality is that in secret she is not a big deal, she is terribly disgusting. It seems like she tries to hide her ugliness behind a mask made of make up.
ReplyDeleteThe poem “a description of the morning” practically is about the contemporary issues that London was facing at that time such as the increase of commerce and business and the consequences that it brought on the common people and their lifestyles.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that The emperor Constantine was the "Author of the Roman Catholic Church" but christianity had existed centuries before that, the first christians where people who suffered a lot because of their believes and most of them died been a spectacle in the roman circuses.
ReplyDeleteA description of the morning was created and publishd in 1710. Swift wrote this text as a description of the social life in London by that time. After the acceptance of this first work, he wrote another one referring to the same topic but giving some more details and ideas about social behavior. It was called "A description of a city shower".
ReplyDeleteI think that in the poem, "The Lady's Dressing Room", Swift wanted to show the reality of men and women's interaction. Actually, I prefer to think that he was not criticizing women.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion cristianity's spread during Roman's fall shows that people need faith to overcome all types of problems. Cristianity was just the way to feel relieved in need.
ReplyDeleteIt seems Jonathan Swift was a prominent man in Irish chuch at that time, but he criticized other churches but not his own.
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Talking about christianity expansion, I guess it was because of commercial roman needs instead of faith. By the time of Constantine Rome's empire declination was near, so that he took the decision of made Christianity the official belief, but some authors sustain that it wasn't because of Constantine conversion but commercial interests, Roman empire needed more taxes, so that the new legal citizens had to pay them
ReplyDeleteAbout John Swift what I can say and because it really call my attention is that he was very known for his satire rather than for his poetry. He used to write poetry and also political writings.
ReplyDeleteSwift's most famous work is Gulliver's Travels, in which the stories have a complete air of authenticy and realism that's why many people used to like them and even believe them as a real stories.
The Lady's Dressing Room is another satirical poem by John Swift, in which he seems to do a parody about the time that a woman spend in a dressing room, in order to make a woman beutiful. Actully he describes the relation between women and men. I think He is not critizing the female gender if not both of them.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Swift was an Irish satirical writer. Considered one of the masters of English prose in the most passionate and satirist of human folly and arrogance. His numerous political writings, prose, letters and poems have the common feature of language use and cost effective.
ReplyDelete"A Description of the Morning" is a 18 lines poem that gives us an idea about the social disorder that London was living in the 18th century. Basically the poem tells how things are the same every single day for L0ndoners.
ReplyDeleteOnce John Drydan told Swift that he was never going to bea poet. However, he wrote great works such as A Tale of a Tub (Between 1696 and 1699)and The Battle of the Books (1697). Even though he was a man of religion, he showed some difference from the rest, Swift went for the controversie. Swift belonged to the The Scriblerus Club, where other personalities were joined, the club was founded in 1714.
ReplyDeleteI believe Rome's Empire had reached the edge of its reign. So, its tradition was fading as well as it did its laws. Therefore, the rise of christiany seemed to be unstopable. And also, it appears to be caused by politic and the economic problems the empire was facing at the end.
ReplyDeleteWas Jonathan Swift married and then he became a priest? that is something unusual if we take into account his period of time. Isn't that ironic?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know he wrote Gulliver's travels when I used to watch it on TV years ago; It was one of my favorite cartoons. I also didn't realize that the plot was a satiric for society.
I found that Swift had several facets in his work life; but at the end of his life he suffered deafness and got insane.
It appears to be that in a A Description of the Morning, Swift describes a typical morning in London. But is not so plain as as we may beleive. The poem describes the working conditions of people and some escenes of workers that labour from day to day. And that in some cases they even create more work for each other.
ReplyDeleteJonathan Swift was a cleric who had the satiric style to write his work, one of his most famous works is Gulliver´s travels. In spite of he was well know for his novels the Quenn Anne rejected his work, Swift frustated returned to his homeland Ireland.
ReplyDeleteChristianity is one of the most influencial religious movements that started after the death of Jesus and gradually became an threat for the Roman Emprire, so the Christians were chased through the time until the Emperor Constantine decided to convert himself and obiously the whole Empire to Christianism.
ReplyDeleteSince that moment the Christianity gained importance and became "the most powerful" creed and military force ruling the world for almost 1000 years. In my humble opinion it is like contradictory because first the Christianism was kind of a "slave and thief ", but then becomes in the "master" dominating other creeds and religious thoughts with an iron fist.
ReplyDeleteIn The Lady's Dressing Room Swift took as a target to Strephon and Celia who serve as a example for all the mistakes that the mankind does.
ReplyDeleteIn A Description of the Morning Jonathan Swift gives us a view of social disorder in 18th century in London.
ReplyDeleteswift was an incredible man stugling with his dicease and finding a place in england he strugled a lot but he finally coul graduate from oxford and wrote his first poem but he received a cold critic...
ReplyDeletehe beggan to write satires in 1696, th first one was called "a tale of a tube"
swift died in 1745 practically tied because of his dicease...(samuel)
one thing that catched my atention was that cristianity wasn't the religion by default, it was constantine's tendency that mde this event to occur, this religion became what it is thanks to the fact that it was a chaos when it appeared and it gave sort of a feeling of joy to the people that knew about it, one question comes to my mind and don't think that I am a heretic or something like that, could be this the reason why the roman empire disapeared?
ReplyDeletein the lady's dressing room I detect a lot of feelings that invade swift's like angryness, tenderness and even compasion... (samuel)
ReplyDeleteIt amazed me how swift's caugh the scense of a tipical morning in the city, with his unique touch he tells different events that happens in a tipical day, of course moking almost in all the situations. (samuel)
ReplyDeleteIn "A description of the morning" Swift shows a negative attitude toward the daily life in London. It seems that in XVIII centiry was a complete social disorder.
ReplyDeleteSomething curious that I found about Swift is that he used to change the names of his pupils.
ReplyDeleteHe named Stella his pupil Esther Johnson (some scholars believe that they got married in secret) and Esther Vanhomrigh was named Vanessa ( she was in love with Swift but he never accepted her feelings)
Jonathan Swift. The work unquestionably assured Swift's literary fame was his novel Gulliver's Travels (1726), imaginative and pessimistic satire of society which would, interestingly, a successful children's literature. The discovery by the protagonist of imaginary countries, composed of tiny beings example (Lilliput) or giant (Brobdingnag), allows the author to launch a sharp and merciless satire on politics and social relations of his time, a tone negative bordering on misanthropy.
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