Gulliver's Travels

An Inward Look Through the Eyes of Gulliver When traveling, one expects to encounter new things and new people. In Gulliver’s Travel, Jonathan Swift introduces his reader to many new characters and lands. Swift writes during the Reformation Period, and uses satire to take aim at the political system at that time. It also is a partial parody of travel books as well. Gulliver, when he is abandoned by his crew, lives a new life so contrary to his original one, that it affects him and his family…

Fantasy and reality are like twins: sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the two. Scholars of all ages have discussed around this theme. In the allegory of the cave of Plato’s work The Republic, the cavemen see the shadows cast on the walls, and they regards that fantasy as the reality (Haarlem, 1604). There are a few intelligent individuals who are fortunate enough to see the original statues that cast shadows on the walls, nevertheless they are still seeing the fantasies because the…

I am about to introduce you to another book I have read. Its title is Gulliver’s Travels. The genius who wrote this book is Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s Travels is a book classified under the genre classics, which I’ve always love to read. As for the setting of the book, they are England, Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, a series of islands named Laputa, Balnibarbi, Lagado, Maldonada, Glubbdubdrib, and Luggnagg, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. Most of the action took place in the country of the…

They had exposed taboo that thousands were dying to read and they sparked a controversy that lead for great discussions among many readers. Indeed in an article, an excerpt proves how the unthinkable novels Gulliver’s Travels and Candide were valued; it reads, “…had already smuggled out copies to much of Europe, where it was read,…and celebrate by tens of thousands of readers…” (“ Early Reviews and Interpretations ”). From what was said here it 's clear that life…

However, the Romantics and Victorians reacted defiantly against Jonathan Swift. Foremost of these were DeQuincey and Thackeray, who went as far as calling Swift as obscene,, blasphemous and other rude words, especially with reference to the Gulliver’s Travels book. These putting down of Swift was fuelled by fear that he was a grave threat to the English order of society, primarily when it comes to the stability of its foothold on Ireland. Nonetheless, amidst the Victorian era, Swift had a…

The title of this book is called Gulliver’s Travels. This is a story known by many souls, and it is known worldwide. Gulliver’s Travels is by Jonathan Swift, and as about to be mentioned, the genres in this book are “Fantasy”, “Satire”, “Science Fiction”, and “Speculative fiction”. In the story, there were 4 main settings mentioned in the story. In the 1st voyage, when Gulliver's ship is wrecked, he ends up on a beach, known as the Land of Liliput. You guessed it, the land of small people.…

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…

Dystopian literature specifically looks at how political, social, and economic structures can go bad and oppress the people that they are meant to help. A dystopia is a general public portrayed by an attention on that which is in opposition to the creator's ethos, for example, mass neediness, open doubt and doubt, a police state or oppression. Most creators of tragic fiction investigate no less than one motivation behind why things are that path, frequently as a relationship for comparable…

If one were to wander the streets of the Irish capital today, they would witness signs of urban decay, homelessness, drug abuse and uneducated, impoverished youths floating aimlessly around the inner city, left to fend for themselves by the Irish state. In relating to such, it is still incomprehensible that one of the greatest pieces of satire ever composed, Jonathan Swift’s ‘A Modest Proposal’ is still as relevant today in society as it was 285 years ago. Written in 1729, in an era of Irish…

debauched one. The Houyhnhnms are far from being perfect, being self-assured in most matters, though it might be well outside their purview. The Houyhnhnm master isn’t experienced enough, having not visited any land other than his, but with just Gulliver’s narrative, he can surely discourse upon the defects. Even the sorrel-nag believes that there can’t be any island other than their own. The Houyhnhnms are quite assured of their own supremacy, for any defect in Gulliver would only ensure that…