10/ What is the difference between Swift’s realism and the realism of Defoe?

Swift’s realism was different from Defoe’s. Defoe presented extremely precise pictures of bourgeois life. Swift used his favorite weapon – laughter – to mock at bourgeois reality. He criticized it and his criticism was hidden away in a whole lots of allergorical pictures. At the same time, he gave very realistic descriptions; exact mathematical  proportions it the tiny Lilliputs and this giants from Brobdingnag. Sometimes his laughter was simply goodnaturedhomor, as for instance, when he wrote of the intelligent horses.

Swift’s language was more elaborate and literary than Defoe’s. This does not mean that he did not make use of the language of the common people. He resorted to it when his criticism became most severe.