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Gulliver's Travels And Other Writings
Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings" main idea is all about Lemul Gulliver and the journey he made to the land of the six-inch-high Lilliputians and the sixty-foot-tall Brobdingnafians' royal court. Go with the traveler to Laputa Island, a flying island, which is inhabited by people of great intelligence but not an ounce of common sense. Go with the traveler to the lands of Houyhnms, which is a race consisting of horses that are civilized who are the masters of human Yahoos (Goodreads). The setting of the travels is basically England and imaginary places of Laputa, Brobdingnag, Blefuscu, Houyhnhnmland and Laputa. Several significant religious and political conflicts took place in the 18th century like the Tories vs. the Whigs, Catholics vs. Protestandsas well as the Ireland-England and France-England wars. There was also controversy about how Ireland would be ruled. The author was born in 1667 in Ireland but most of his adult life was spent in England. He went back to Ireland while in mid-40s to push for Ireland's independence. He published Gulliver's Travels after he went back in Ireland (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Characters - Themes - Setting, 2016). Consider the following thesis: Lemuel was an Englishman who boasted of a practical mindset. He was a trained surgeon and when his businesses collapsed, he took to traveling the seas. Through a non-emotional and non-self-reflective first-person narrative, Gulliver tells of his adventures as he travelled (Gulliver's Travel -- Plot Overview). The events of the novel take place from the year 1699 to the year 1715. Gulliver narrates his travels to foreign places and refers to them as "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts...by Lemuel Gulliver." (Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Characters - Themes - Setting, 2016). This text does not make a travel book. It can be considered a parody of travel works at the time and is suitable for leisure reading (Claude Rawson, 2013).
"Gulliver's Travels, at times, has a very base focus. There is a definite juxtaposition of Gulliver's learned behaviors and the basic human need to living with the nature."
The Body:
Plot Summary
The book's characters include Lemul Gulliver who is the narrator, the Emperor who rules Lilliput and who happens to be less than 6 inches tall just like other Lilliputians. Other Lillputians include Flimnap who is the Lord High Treasurer, Reldresal who is a councilor and also serves as the Principal Secretary of Private Affairs, Skyreshbolgolam who is Lilliput's high admiral and the Emperor's counselor. Gulliver's protector and nurse is Glumdalclitch and she is the daughter of the master of Gulliver in Brobdingnag. The King of Laputa is the ruler of the land and is fascinated by music and mathematics. There is an Academy of Professors who do the planning and facilitation of reforms but do their jobs without looking into the possible effects of their actions. Other characters include Yahoos who are subjects of Houyhnhnms and the Grey Horse who is the master of Gulliver in Houyhnmns.
The Conclusion
In Chapter 8, the King of…
References
Claude Rawson. (2013). Gulliver, Travel, and Empire. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture.
Goodreads. (n.d.). Retrieved from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6262281-gulliver-s-travels-and-other-writings
Gulliver's Travel - Plot Overview. (n.d.). Retrieved from Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/gulliver/summary.html
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: Characters - Themes - Setting. (2016, September 23). Retrieved from Lone Star College Kingwood: http://kwlibguides.lonestar.edu/swift-gulliver-travels
Stephen Holliday. (2013, October 20). What is the setting in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels? Retrieved from enotes: http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-setting-gullivers-travels-460406
Swift attack on man in part 4 on the basis of Gulliver's Travels. (2016, April 6). Retrieved from josbd: http://josbd.com/swift-attack-on-man-in-part-4-on-the-basis-of-gullivers-travels/
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