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        <title><![CDATA[In all three lands, Gulliver largely confines himself to passive...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In all three lands, Gulliver largely confines himself to passive observation, if one can describe that as an activity. In Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Gulliver spends his time ingratiating himself with the court and dealing with the practicalities of his size. But the Laputans are the same size as Gulliver and he is very little regarded by either the princes or the people.
Swift is spoofing the obsession with scientific experiment of his day and...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Laputa is a flying island whose inhabitants are solely intellectualls...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Laputa is a flying island whose inhabitants are solely intellectualls who devote themselves to the disciplines of sciences such as mathematics and astronomy. It is clear these people can only think abstract thoughts and are unable to practically apply their knowledge. One example is that they have mastered the principles of magnetics and levitation, but are unable to make proper clothes or build good buildings, because they take all...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[How do Gulliver's activities in Laputa differ from those on his first...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How do Gulliver's activities in Laputa differ from those on his first two voyages?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The first section of Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to Lilliput." takes...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The first section of Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to Lilliput." takes place in a land of extremely small people called Lilliput. Gulliver is on a ship that is shipwrecked and manages to swim to the shore of Lilliput, where the tiny people take him prisoner and bring him to the Emperor of their land where he becomes an attraction of the court. Gulliver becomes involved in Lilliputian matters, but after he hears a rumor that some people in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:29:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What's the setting in the first part of Gulliver's Travels?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What's the setting in the first part of Gulliver's Travels?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:09:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[All four parts of the book deal with politics and humanity.  It is a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[All four parts of the book deal with politics and humanity.  It is a social satire focused on all the horrible deeds of the English cleverly disguised as a travel journal.Part I is the Lilliputians...the little people.  They are haughty and full of themselves.  They give Gulliver orders about sinking the Blefescuians (symbolic French) even though Gulliver had nothing against them.  Their haughty and holier-than-though manners make it even...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jun 2008 06:10:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a complicated question and the full answer won't fit in this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is a complicated question and the full answer won't fit in this space, but I will give you a short version.  The entire book is a satire of many aspects of people, politics, and society. In Book 1, the Lilliputians are shown to be petty, superficial, illogical, and narrow-minded. They fight a war over a ridiculous reason.  They appoint their public officials in a ludicrous way; they create titles for themselves to give themselves...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Jun 2008 05:57:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are the main concepts of part 1 and 2 of &quot;Gulliver's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are the main concepts of part 1 and 2 of &quot;Gulliver's Travels&quot;?  What are the differences? ]]></description>
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