Corrupted European System in Jonathan Swift’s Satire Gullivers Travels
Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most famous books written by Jonathan Swift. Though It is in the context of a travel book, indeed it is a pure satire towards European Society at that times. Claude Rawson explains the aim of this book in his article Gulliver, Travel, and Empire: “Gulliver's Travels is not a travel book. Although it is formally a parody of travel writings, a species of book Swift referred to as "abundance of Trash," but read for pleasure, travel writing is hardly its mainpreoccupation” His critsism against this corrupted European society(colonization, people relationships,mentality) can be seen thorougly in the book and this research paper aims to talk about …show more content…
They are like 60 feet and their soils and animals are accordingly tall. Gulliver has many difficulties here. Here the satire reverses. Once he was admired in Lilliput but now he is just a tiny creature here, like a mosquito in our world. Here, Swift makes Gulliver feel how to be small and powerless. He must rely on these people if he wants to live.When he first went there the farmer kept him as a worker and as a monkey actually. They looked at him and laughed because he was different. He was not only under captivity but also had to work so much and so hard. So here we see slavey. Those people brough from America and Africa who were to work in hard conditions and were made to play in circus to make people laugh. He was treated as hero a savior in Lilliput but he is treated like a pet, doll by Glumdalclitch a 9 nine year old giant kid. When Gulliver starts to speak in their language, the king asks question about England. How is England governned? What do people do for living? And he even ask some questions which Gulliver can not answer. These questions are to make people, the readers think. Gulliver tells the king about gunpowder the king lsitens what gunpowder is and when he learns he asks Gulliver not to mention it again. They got an army since they do usually have civil wars. But they do not have artillery. These people are good actually, they got fewer wars, intellectual people but inside they are still humans. They fight and take …show more content…
Ther heads always lean on either right or left and their eyes can never focus on things around them. These guys love two things. Music and Mathematic.They are expertss at both of these. But in anything practical they do suck. They can not build places in the correct angles. They are not able to even sew their own clothes. The reason they suck at these is that they do not accept any of the measurements in the real life. Though these country floats, they do have some relationship with the continent whose name is Balnibarbi. All of the Lupuatian King’s got lands on this continent. Because of these they can not ensaleve the people living there. But the king got a really str,ct policy fort that. If the people living under Laputa do not send their taxes, really hard times will be awaiting them. The king will change the place of his island, block their sun so he will maket hem pay the taxes. As it can be seen througly, even though these people can not do anything apart from Math and Music, they got instinct for being domanating to the others, it is the must of human nature. Just like the other king that Gulliver had met before, Laputian kings is like his people. He is the representative of his country. He finds Gulliver cool but does not like him at all because his math and music skills are insufficient. It is like England at that time. People did not like the others who had different qualities from them. Prostestants did not like Catholics, Whitemen
Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most famous books written by Jonathan Swift. Though It is in the context of a travel book, indeed it is a pure satire towards European Society at that times. Claude Rawson explains the aim of this book in his article Gulliver, Travel, and Empire: “Gulliver's Travels is not a travel book. Although it is formally a parody of travel writings, a species of book Swift referred to as "abundance of Trash," but read for pleasure, travel writing is hardly its mainpreoccupation” His critsism against this corrupted European society(colonization, people relationships,mentality) can be seen thorougly in the book and this research paper aims to talk about …show more content…
They are like 60 feet and their soils and animals are accordingly tall. Gulliver has many difficulties here. Here the satire reverses. Once he was admired in Lilliput but now he is just a tiny creature here, like a mosquito in our world. Here, Swift makes Gulliver feel how to be small and powerless. He must rely on these people if he wants to live.When he first went there the farmer kept him as a worker and as a monkey actually. They looked at him and laughed because he was different. He was not only under captivity but also had to work so much and so hard. So here we see slavey. Those people brough from America and Africa who were to work in hard conditions and were made to play in circus to make people laugh. He was treated as hero a savior in Lilliput but he is treated like a pet, doll by Glumdalclitch a 9 nine year old giant kid. When Gulliver starts to speak in their language, the king asks question about England. How is England governned? What do people do for living? And he even ask some questions which Gulliver can not answer. These questions are to make people, the readers think. Gulliver tells the king about gunpowder the king lsitens what gunpowder is and when he learns he asks Gulliver not to mention it again. They got an army since they do usually have civil wars. But they do not have artillery. These people are good actually, they got fewer wars, intellectual people but inside they are still humans. They fight and take …show more content…
Ther heads always lean on either right or left and their eyes can never focus on things around them. These guys love two things. Music and Mathematic.They are expertss at both of these. But in anything practical they do suck. They can not build places in the correct angles. They are not able to even sew their own clothes. The reason they suck at these is that they do not accept any of the measurements in the real life. Though these country floats, they do have some relationship with the continent whose name is Balnibarbi. All of the Lupuatian King’s got lands on this continent. Because of these they can not ensaleve the people living there. But the king got a really str,ct policy fort that. If the people living under Laputa do not send their taxes, really hard times will be awaiting them. The king will change the place of his island, block their sun so he will maket hem pay the taxes. As it can be seen througly, even though these people can not do anything apart from Math and Music, they got instinct for being domanating to the others, it is the must of human nature. Just like the other king that Gulliver had met before, Laputian kings is like his people. He is the representative of his country. He finds Gulliver cool but does not like him at all because his math and music skills are insufficient. It is like England at that time. People did not like the others who had different qualities from them. Prostestants did not like Catholics, Whitemen