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        <title><![CDATA[Swift mocks a number of social and political traditions throughout the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Swift mocks a number of social and political traditions throughout the text. In Lilliput he decries the idea of voting based on anything BUT issues. (Dancing on a rope is not so different from dancing around issues of relevance in an attempt to look good to the greatest number of people.) Elections in the British world of 1699 were not much different than what we see in the US today, which makes reading Gulliver's Travels in 2009 as current as...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Daniel Defoe's novel Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver becomes involved...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Daniel Defoe's novel Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver becomes involved in the long-standing dispute between the tiny citizens of Lilliput and the nearby island nation of Blefuscu. The conflict between the two nations of little people began long before when one of the Lilliputian emperors determined that eggs could only be broken on the small end. Some Lilliputians rebelled against this doctrine, and Blefuscu entered the conflict since the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:50:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain how the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu began.
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain how the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu began.
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:44:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Swift was often called a misanthrope, someone who despises humanity. (In...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Swift was often called a misanthrope, someone who despises humanity. (In the critical overview linked below, you'll find plenty of evidence to this postulation.) Whether Swift truly was misanthropic or just sarcastic, he makes his point about the farce of human superiority brilliantly in the fourth part of Gulliver's Travels.
Swift chose horses, beast of burden, to be his rational and logical heroes in this section, while creating the humanoid...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:05:31 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Discuss how Jonathan Swift satirizes human behavior in Gulliver's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Discuss how Jonathan Swift satirizes human behavior in Gulliver's Travels though contrasting characterizations of the Houyhnhms and the Yahoos.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:31:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[To really understand how Swift's exaggerations work as satire, you...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[To really understand how Swift's exaggerations work as satire, you really have to know the political history behind the book. The links below will help set the stage for seeing how Swift uses colorful pictures to make strong statements.
Part of what makes Swift's satire work is how he shows how ridiculous people look when they argue over inconsequential things and ignore the things that are more important. For example, the Lilliputions choose...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:27:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Before the story even begins, Swift set up a controversy about its...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Before the story even begins, Swift set up a controversy about its authenticity. Richard Sympson is his cousin, friend, and publisher. First Gulliver complains that Sympson edited important elements from the book before publication and he demands Sympson put it to rights before the next edition. In the same letter Gulliver washes his hands of the human race, saying that he only wrote the book to educate people and the idea that people doubted...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:09:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lemuel Gulliver must surely have been astonished to awaken after a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lemuel Gulliver must surely have been astonished to awaken after a shipwreck to find himself tied down with a series of slender ropes. Even his hair was tied down so that he could not even turn his head to see where he might be and how he came to be tied to the ground.
He felt the Lilliputians before he saw them as they walked over his chest. He yelled (or screamed) at the sight of six inch humans, and they tumbled down. After that, Gulliver...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:56:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[the best satirical part is the end of the last chapter of the second...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[the best satirical part is the end of the last chapter of the second voyage, where judges, soldiers, lawyers, politicians etc are severely criticised. if you talk of this portion it would be much better]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 22:19:40 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, how does Lemuel Gulliver plan to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, how does Lemuel Gulliver plan to escape the Lilliputians' bonds?
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:51:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gulliver encounters the Yahoos when he goes on the last of his voyages...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Gulliver encounters the Yahoos when he goes on the last of his voyages to the land of the Houyhnhnms.  The Houyhnhnms represent perfection of existence in that they don't lie, cheat, steal, covet or commit any of the other sins that Swift saw people possessing.  The Yahoos, on the other hand, represent the worst of existence in that they are dirty, uncivilized, amoral, and covetous.  Since this is Gulliver's final voyage, this is Swift's...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:56:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the relationship between the yahoos and humankind in Gulliver's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the relationship between the yahoos and humankind in Gulliver's Travels?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:59:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In Gulliver's Travels, according to Sympson, how is Gulliver known among...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In Gulliver's Travels, according to Sympson, how is Gulliver known among his neighbors?
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        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:16:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[He was a surgeon aboard a ship. It would classify him as both sailor...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[He was a surgeon aboard a ship. It would classify him as both sailor and surgeon, but the fact that the story includes many instances of criticisms against medicine and doctors in general, you can conclude that surgeon was his first and foremost career. He signed up as a ship surgeon and then shipwrecked in Lilliput.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:46:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What was Gulliver's occupation during the early travels?
A. a writer...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What was Gulliver's occupation during the early travels?
A. a writer
B. a military man
C. a surgeon
D. a sailor
E. all of the above]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:17:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grammardog Guide to Gulliver's Travels]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[How to explain Swift mock English?(language)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How to explain Swift mock English?(language)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 05:40:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Gulliver's Travels Study Guide (Enhanced eBook)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/documents/gullivers-travels-study-guide-enhanced-ebook-28239</link>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift's book, Gulliver's Travels, is know for its...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift's book, Gulliver's Travels, is know for its exaggerations, but how do they make the text effective?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:40:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What kinds of foolish actions does Swift criticize in Gulliver's Travels?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What kinds of foolish actions does Swift criticize in Gulliver's Travels?]]></description>
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