Creating Reason in the "Age of Reason": An Analysis of the Life and Times of Jonathan Swift.

The "thinkers" of our society have always been criticized of reacting in extreme ways, and "during the ... Age of Reason (generally considered from 1650-1850), the literary genre known as the comedy of manners attempted to combat such pernicious either-or ways of thinking. As a form of satire, the comedy of manners ridiculed human vices with the aim of producing an improvement in [behavior]" (Maas). The most important functions in society are thought to be religion and government, and such foundations were completely corrupted and disoriented as early as the late 1600s in England. During…