Fierce satire is one of the leading characteristics of Smollett’s novels. As Crose Points out, “He crowds his pages with well-known character of his own time, usually for the purpose of fierce satire. He is a Swift without Swift’s clear and wide vision.

“As pointed out above, he was an aggrieved and frustrated man, and “he flings back at society, with all the contempt and indignation he can muster, rather more than he has got” (Allen). “His method is minute and his satire savage and person I”. The least unvarnished scenes in English fiction, the most] coarse and brutal, belong to Smollett. He is constantly cursing his fellow-men as fools and knaves.