It is quite easy for people to forget the simple pleasures of life due to many stressors and other distractions that surround us. Many people forgot, or even may not have experienced a pleasure such as adventure. Adventure brings excitement to one’s life because it offers new experiences and new understanding of the world around us. Jonathan Swift explains the pleasure of adventure and travel most explicitly in his most well-known novel Gulliver’s Travels. Written in 1726, Jonathan Swift uses his own experiences to convey through Gulliver’s Travels a message how a story of adventure can change somebody's life for the better, while also going through other themes such as narrow-mindedness.
The author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, was born in 1667, in the month of November. His place of birth is Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Jonathan Swift, and Abigail Erick. His father was a lawyer and English civil servant while his mother was left alone and too poor to take care of her child. …show more content…
It is the main plot of the novel and therefore everything revolves around adventure. In the beginning of the novel Swift writes about how Gulliver is a simple man who lives a simple life in a simple town, yet this changes once he embarks on his journeys around the world. He goes on four voyages; after each one completed and he returns home he wishes to go on another and further explore the world around him. This is because he falls in love with the adventure and not the transparent life he has in his town. Adventure also gives Gulliver a new outlook on how he looks at the world around him. Swift uses this opportunity to create satires about man. However, This also allows the reader to wonder and imagine about adventure, the emotions and new perception it would deliver, and how it would affect themselves. Swift, through Gulliver’s Travels, allows the reader to play with the thought of adventure and the good it could
The author of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift, was born in 1667, in the month of November. His place of birth is Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Jonathan Swift, and Abigail Erick. His father was a lawyer and English civil servant while his mother was left alone and too poor to take care of her child. …show more content…
It is the main plot of the novel and therefore everything revolves around adventure. In the beginning of the novel Swift writes about how Gulliver is a simple man who lives a simple life in a simple town, yet this changes once he embarks on his journeys around the world. He goes on four voyages; after each one completed and he returns home he wishes to go on another and further explore the world around him. This is because he falls in love with the adventure and not the transparent life he has in his town. Adventure also gives Gulliver a new outlook on how he looks at the world around him. Swift uses this opportunity to create satires about man. However, This also allows the reader to wonder and imagine about adventure, the emotions and new perception it would deliver, and how it would affect themselves. Swift, through Gulliver’s Travels, allows the reader to play with the thought of adventure and the good it could