Gulliver's Travels | Ideas for Reports and Papers
1. Even though Gulliver is an accurate and honest reporter, he is not a reliable narrator. In what ways is he unreliable, and how do readers know when not to accept his judgment?
2. Book three does not fit many patterns of the other three books. Explain how it is different, and either defend its presence in Gulliver's Travels or argue that it should not have been included by Swift.
3. Carefully explain how Swift uses book one to both satirize and champion particular political events and people of eighteenth-century England. Explain the historical events that...
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