Types of travel

JOANNA BOTES 843963 WORD COUNT:1802 QUESTION 1: “Because satire often combines anger and humour it can be profoundly disturbing-because it is essentially ironic or sarcastic,it is often misunderstood”.Do you agree?Argue with close reference to events and characters in Oyono’s Houseboy and Eppel’s Absent:The English Teacher. This statement is correct as the writers satirical motive can often be misunderstood by the audience.Both Oyono and Eppel are political satirists and their…

Gulliver’s Travels, written by Jonathan Swift, is a satirical novel that takes the reader on a journey to various places. Swift was born in Dublin, but was raised in England by his wealthy uncle. He became particularly interested in politics and found himself satirizing the government, which is what he became well-known for. Many believe he took issues that were residing in England as inspiration when writing his novels. In this novel, Swift explores social classes by using different sized…

“The Pardoner’s Tale” Author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote “The Canterbury Tales,” a book known as anthology for its several tales, in 1392. One of the several tales called “The Pardoner’s Tale” which has a prologue and then the tale itself. In the prologue, it is mentioned that “Love of money is the root of all evil” and the tale describing how greed can lead to devastating acts and consequences. A prologue and a tale with the sense of Morality in between the lines. Leaving aside that the…

In clergyman Johnathan Swift’s essay, A Modest Proposal, Swift presents a proposal that small children should be sold for food. Swift supports his proposal by providing examples of how selling the small children would be beneficial, describing how his proposed system would be set up, and also by supporting his proposal with logical evidence that shows he spent time creating a well-crafted argument. Swift’s purpose is to present an absurd proposal in order to show how absurd the poverty level in…

When Gulliver lands on the island of Lilliput, he discovers the race of the Lilliputians, who are six-inch tall people. While Gulliver is physically much larger than the Lilliputians, being a six-foot tall man, he is quite larger than the lilliputians in character and morale. Many examples of Gulliver’s “bigness” and the Lilliputians “littleness” are demonstrated throughout, such as Gulliver urinating on the palace to extinguish the fire, though a peculiar way to go about the issue, it was…

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…

Science fiction as a literary genre has come a long way from Verne's search for the center of the earth and Wells' travel through time in his time machine. Contemporary science fiction is more willing to challenge the limits of possibilities and more eager to push the boundaries of human imagination. More importantly, science fiction often acts as a precursor to scientific thought, and forebodes new research; projects such as Google Glass can be traced to similar ideas presented much earlier in…

Are we humans simply brute animals, or are we capable of being rational, intelligent creatures? These questions are discussed in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, but the answers are primarily left up to the personal discretion of the reader. Both perspectives are analyzed. Gulliver bears an undeniable resemblance to the brutish Yahoos, but he also shows the Houyhnhnm-like characteristics of reason and language. This satirical book is used to draw attention to how brutish and…

Finally, whereas Victorian definitions of progress implicitly rely on a binary opposition of success and failure, Morley and Stevenson use Fortune’s Wheel to replace it with a definition of human development where both fortune and misfortune can co-exist without contradicting each other. In the 1880s and 1890s, the Wheel of Fortune could easily have been used as a portent of the apocalypse, suggesting as it does that decline is inevitable. Many critics of the day were already talking about…

Gulliver’s Travels In the literary world, there are many well-known works that people of all ages have come to love. Of those many, Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift holds a special place in the hearts of its readers. Gulliver’s Travels is a satire that gives you Swift’s opinion on such things as politics, religion, and the social atmosphere of England in his lifetime, through the telling of this fantastic story. The tale takes us through these hot topics with ironic imagery and often humor…