Literary Criticism: Addison with Indian Kings on the English

Introduction
Joseph Addison’s main literary works comprise the essays he contributed to The Tattler and The Spectator, the two periodicals that were published in association with Steele. Addison was the originator of a new kind of prose style. His mode of essay writing is in refined language and good English. Main qualities of Addison’s prose style are simplicity, correctness, ease, grace elegance and clearness. He is a mater of “attic prose”, the middle style and very notifiable in his humorous usage of similes. The comparison of Whigs and Tories to elephant and rhinoceros in his “Remark on the English by Indian Kings” is a best example for it. In the aforesaid essay, he satirically comments on some activities of English people, using an imaginary Indian king Sa-Ga-Yean-Qua-Rash-Tow the mouth piece.
The Kings and the St.Pauls.
When the four Indian kings came to England, they had a chance to visit the St.Paul’s Church. They did not understand that it was St.Pauls. Their remarks contrasted with each others. King of rivers, E Tow O Koam, expressed that it was made by the hands of the great God, to whom it was consecrated. On the other hand, King of Granaja, ruler of six nations, believes that it was created with earth and was produced on the same day with the sun and the moon. In the opinion of the king Sa-Ga-Yean-Qua-Rash-Tow, it was a huge house, which was on the rising part of the town. It was big enough to contain the whole nation of which he was the king. It was a prodigious pile fashioned into the shape by several tools and instruments. At first it would have been a huge misshapen rock on the top of a hill. The natives of the country could have suffered a lot to make it beautiful. Its outside was smooth as a pebble. There were many pillars which stood like a trunk of a tree with garlands of leaves decorated. The natives might have used it as a temple to pay their devotion. But he could not observe any circumstance of devotion now from the behaviour of the people who came there. Instead of worshipping, most of them were bowing and courtesying to one another. Some of them were fast asleep, even though a man in black (may be the clergy), mounted above them is orating something.
The Guides of the Kings
Whigs and Tories were the political parties in England. The Whigs were those who share the seats in the House of commons in the British Parliament. Tory was the party of landlords and the king. The queen of the country appointed two men to guide the Indian kings. One of them belonged to Whigs and the other, Tory. After sometime, the Indian kings realize the fact that these two were great enemies to one another and didn’t always agree with each other. From these interpreters, the king assumed the idea that Whigs and Tories were two monstrous animals that have been infested England. These two creatures, it seems, were born with secret enemity to one another and engage their encounters as naturally as an elephant meets a rhinocerous. Eventually, the kings realize the fact that the guids were amusing them with interpretation and fiction.
Fashion
The fashion of men in England is very interesting. All men are sensible and clever. They are very skilled in handy craft work. At the same time, their dressings are barborous. Their dress are in such a way that would strangled themselves about the neck and bind their bodies with many ligatures. They always put on a monstrous bush of hair which covers their heads. They walked up and down the streets with this, and are as proud of it as it was of their own growth.
The English women gave more priority to their fashion than their character formation. They applied new trends and styles in their long grown hair. In spite of their angel like appearance, they are used to make up their face using black beauty spots. The Indian kings misinterpret these spots as a kind of infection. They say that these spots change the position many times a day. For example, if it appeared upon the chin in the afternoon, in morning it would be on the forehead.