Oliver Goldsmith i Kritika engleskog drustva u djelima Jonathana Swifta

They are both satyrists of social issues which they wrote in their stories as mockery
of the snobbery, hypocrisy and falsehood of the upper classes, especially those who
are "in charge" of society.
Goldsmith has personified characters with characteristics that you would think are
meant to evoke respect and love for the character only to find out that he was
mocking the character and evoking laughter in the reader. Swift does the same in
Oliver Twist, for instance, where he particularly pounds on the Laputians, who are
the representation of all that is wrong in being human.
The contrast is mainly their focus. Swift is more of a humanist=-- he criticizes society
from the point of view of how man has ruined himself, and society along with it.
Goldsmith is more of a social observer, and writes and mocks about it as a whole.
While Oliver Goldsmith and Jonathan Swift were both satirists, they targeted
different aspects of society in their works. Goldsmith, like Swift, mocks the society
of his day, but his depiction of characters hinges on their representing types of
people. They do not appear to the reader to be individuals in their own right - a
method other writers such as Moliere uses. As such, much of Goldsmith's satirical
focus is on society as a whole. In addition, unlike much of Swift's satirical work, one
of Goldsmith's primary motivations was to make people laugh, often making his
ridicule more subtle and easier for the reader to swallow. The gentle nature of
Goldsmith's satire is puzzling, because it is often difficult to discern what is truly
sentimental and what is truly satirical.
Jonathan Swift, on the other hand, does not run up against the same problem. In
his works, his readers become very aware of Swift's satirical targets. In "A Modest
Proposal"(1729) perhaps the most well-known of Swift's satires outside of Gulliver's
Travels (1726), he targets not only the Irish who are lazy and apathetic toward their
own lives but also the English who have put the Irish in such a situation. The very
subject matter of the pamphlet alerts the reader to the nature of the work. Gulliver's
Travels, like "A Modest Proposal," targets more specific aspects of society than
much of Goldsmith's works. In his novel, Swift takes the scientific community to
task, as well as humanity as a whole. As such, his satirical work tends to be much
more pointed in drawing out its targets and more stinging in his indictment of them.
Swift in Gulliver's Travels, uses Juvenalian satire. Swift condemns his targets. His
satire is not teasing or endearing, it is vehement and bitter. His targets are not
exposed as silly, as Pope's are. Swift's targets are exposed as stupid, ridiculous,
mindless, blood-thirsty, etc.

The first thing that I would cite as a metaphor in this essay comes in the fourth

paragraph. There, he talks about a child that has just been "dropt from its dam."
These are words that you would use for an animal being born. So I see this as a
use of metaphor -- he is comparing the children to animals.
Later on in the essay, he uses the same sort of metaphor, suggesting that 20,000 be
kept for breeding. Again, he is comparing the children to animals.
By having his satirical speaker do this, Swift is adding to his major point -- he is
using this metaphor to show how the authorities generally treat the Irish as animals.