The Struldbrugs are known as immortals that are “incapable of friendship and natural affection towards others (Swift 180). As they grow older, they become melancholy and despondent. After the age of 30, the Struldbrugs are burdened with decay mentally, physically, and emotionally. In “Swift’s Struldbruggs, Progress, and the Analogy of History,” William Freedman stated that the Struldbrugs was read to be “an attack on Gulliver’s own foolishness and personal ambition” (Freedman). Freedman believed that this episode of the Struldbrugs was an “assault on humanity’s sobering lesson on that humanity is always the same, and there is no escape from our vices and our trivialities.” I believe that Freedman fails to notice that Gulliver was not foolish when he encountered the Struldbrugs. If Gulliver is described as foolish then why did he feel ashamed of envisioning how it
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I believe that every human is to live, learn, change, and grow. In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver was doing exactly that; continued to learn on his voyages. By Gulliver traveling to the voyages in Book III, he continued to learn how each and every individual was different. However, in the episode of the Struldbrugs, they ended up being all the same in the end; incapable of existing. He should not feel foolish that he perceived the Struldbrugs as deprived and peculiar. He was unaware that people can live like that; they were secluded from everyone and was “hated by all sorts of people” (Swift 180). In addition, when Gulliver had his personal ambition of visioning his happiness eternally, he believed that it can be a blessing. By revealing the life of a Struldbrug, I believe that he did not wish suffering upon the Struldbrugs. He would hope that the Struldbrugs would not have to live eternally if they were they were going to be “cursed of undying decay”
I believe that every human is to live, learn, change, and grow. In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver was doing exactly that; continued to learn on his voyages. By Gulliver traveling to the voyages in Book III, he continued to learn how each and every individual was different. However, in the episode of the Struldbrugs, they ended up being all the same in the end; incapable of existing. He should not feel foolish that he perceived the Struldbrugs as deprived and peculiar. He was unaware that people can live like that; they were secluded from everyone and was “hated by all sorts of people” (Swift 180). In addition, when Gulliver had his personal ambition of visioning his happiness eternally, he believed that it can be a blessing. By revealing the life of a Struldbrug, I believe that he did not wish suffering upon the Struldbrugs. He would hope that the Struldbrugs would not have to live eternally if they were they were going to be “cursed of undying decay”