Crimes Of Interpretation
Swift uses the story of the three brothers and their coats, and also the digressions to portray the crimes of interpretation in the twin spheres of religion and literature. ... The story of the three brothers and their coats, in the sphere of religion, satirized not religion itself, but the abuse of it; the crimes of interpretation. ... Literary criticism is a fancier way of saying the interpretation of literature. In former times critics were people who made up rules in which cautious writers might speak out on the productions of the learned and form an acceptable judgment of the ‘sublime and the admirable’ (389), maybe disregarding great works due to personal opinion or interpretation.