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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) wrote Gulliver’s Travels as a satirical allegory about an Englishman who is cast ashore in strange lands after four separate voyages. At the conclusion of his various...
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Gulliver's Travels
The general theme of Gulliver's Travels is the inherently amusing nature of human tradition and custom, and the relative nature of morality and society based on historical precedent. Like so many...
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Gulliver's Travels
In Gulliver's Travels, Luputa is a circular island that floats high above the surface of the earth. It is not very large at just four and a half miles across. It seems that some sort of magnetism...
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Gulliver's Travels
As he was preparing Gulliver's Travels for publication, Jonathan Swift famously wrote to Alexander Pope that "the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours, is to vex the world rather than...
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Gulliver's Travels
One satirical element in Gulliver’s Travels can be found in Part I, in the two rival political parties of the fictional kingdom of Lilliput – the Tramecksan and the Slamecksan. The groups are...
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Gulliver's Travels
The island of Lilliput is the first foreign land that Lemuel Gulliver reaches. Gulliver finds that he has many things in common with the Lilliputians, although they are vastly different in size. He...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is a satire written in 1726 by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It is divided into four parts each describing a voyage made by the eponymous hero. The Yahoos are...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is a political satire; the main characters represent situations and institutions rather than portraying credible people. Gulliver is more of a flat character than a round one....
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Gulliver's Travels
The Blefuscans have assembled a large navy with which they intend to invade Lilliput. The Lilliputians are in big trouble, as they have no comparable force with which to repel the invaders....
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver gets stranded in Brobdingnag when he goes ashore in a longboat with a group of sailors. They need to fetch water, and he wants to explore, so he separates from them once they reach land....
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Gulliver's Travels
Throughout the book, Lemuel Gulliver emphasizes his superiority to the people he encounters. One way he does so is by emphasizing his superior manners and well-reasoned behavior. Because the novel...
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Gulliver's Travels
In Part IV of Gulliver's Travels clothing comes to have great symbolic significance. It represents the preconceived ideas and notions that Gulliver brings with him to the land of the Houyhnhmns,...
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift’s novel, Gulliver’s Travels, was written in 1726 and is a rich, satirical text focusing on human nature. The story includes wildly imaginative characters that represent people in...
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Gulliver's Travels
In part 2, Lemuel Gulliver reaches Brobdingnag, where the people are giants in comparison to him. The vast difference in size is the principal element of fantasy that Swift employs: the people are...
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Gulliver's Travels
It's hard to give very specific examples without having access to your source material, but there are a few approaches that might help you compare and contrast the two different forms of media. In...
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Gulliver's Travels
One good example of satire in Brobdingnag is the status of laws. Instead of the overwritten, obscure laws of most governments, Brobdingnagian laws are limited and plainly written, with only one...
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Gulliver's Travels
After his return from Lilliput, Gulliver grows restless and soon desires to go on another sea voyage. This voyage, however, is plagued by problems—the crew discovers a leak in the ship, the captain...
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Gulliver's Travels
You might want to approach this question by considering the way in which the sequence of adventures that Gulliver has relates to one of the key themes of the novel, which is the way that claims of...
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Gulliver's Travels
In both these works, the authors describe fictional events in a detailed, realistic style. The key difference is that Daniel Defoe, in Robinson Crusoe, wants to trick the reader into thinking the...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver has been captured by the Lilliputians, and though he's no longer tied down to the beach by ropes, he's still restricted in his movements. For the moment, he's being housed in a temple. His...
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Gulliver's Travels
In the course of his travels, two of the lands that Lemuel Gulliver visits are Lilliput and Brobdignag. The people on the island of Lilliput are tiny in comparison to Gulliver, and so they perceive...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver is truly astonished at just how bold the Lilliputians are. Though no more than six inches tall, they display remarkable courage in tying down what to them is a huge, fearsome giant. Even...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver arrives at Lilliput only after enduring a harrowing ordeal. After his ship is blown off course, it crashes on a rock and is soon completely overtaken by the waves. Gulliver seems to be the...
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Gulliver's Travels
There simply isn't enough room here to fully discuss GT as a satire. That having been said, Gulliver's Travels satirizes many things in English society. A "satire" makes fun of things...
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Gulliver's Travels
In many ways, the satire is a very simple one in this case. The Yahoos are meant to represent the general condition of the human race. As Gulliver comes to understand, these beings are so...
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Gulliver's Travels
Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) has long been famous for his clever satire. In Gulliver’s Travels, Swift not only tells a fantastical and entertaining tale of imaginary places and...
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Gulliver's Travels
Part 4 of Gulliver's Travels deals with Gulliver's discovery of a land where horses (Houyhnhnms) are as intelligent as humans, and humans (Yahoos) are as unintelligent as animals. The satire is...
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Gulliver's Travels
In the second part of the novel, in which Gulliver experiences the land of giants, a country called Brobdingnag, the captain sends a small group of men ashore "with vessels for water," which they...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver winds up on the island kingdom of Lilliput by accident. He originally headed home to his family after his three-year stint as surgeon aboard the good ship Swallow. But his wanderlust soon...
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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels opens with a letter. The letter is fictional but purports to be from a real person named Richard Sympson, a man who claims to be an "ancient and...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver reluctantly decides to return home to England at the end of his epic journey. In truth, he'd much rather have stayed with the Houyhnhnms, but after being asked to leave, he has no choice...
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Gulliver's Travels
I'm going to assume that you're asking how the giant Gulliver was fed by the tiny Lilliputians. It's a huge logistical operation, a truly remarkable feat of engineering, yet somehow the...
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Gulliver's Travels
In chapter 12, Gulliver is explicitly critical of European colonization. He says, for example, that rather than see the Europeans attempt to colonize the Houyhnhnms, he would prefer to see "a...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver demonstrates his fundamentally practical personality throughout his incredible adventures. Whenever faced with a challenge—and there are many!—he meets it with what always seems to him a...
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Gulliver's Travels
Samuel Pepys's style in his famous journal is informative and realistic. On the other hand, Jonathan Swift writes Gulliver's Travels as a satire. Pepys's journal is famous for the way it captures...
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Gulliver's Travels
This episode of Gulliver's Travels has probably been subjected to more analysis, or specifically psychoanalysis, than any other within Book IV or the entire tale. A frequent view of commentators...
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Gulliver's Travels
In his conversation with the leader of the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver describes disputes over religion as ludicrous and completely irrational: Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels is a satire presented in the first person point of view, as a journal kept during Lemuel Gulliver's various adventures throughout the known and unknown world. Travelogues were...
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Gulliver's Travels
In Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver goes to the garden of the court in part 2, chapter 5. There he is seen as extremely small among the large people of Brobdingnag, and his stature makes him extremely...
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Gulliver's Travels
It is not explicitly stated what the king feels after Gulliver inadvertently escapes from Brobdingnag; however, we can safely assume a few things. It is clear in the text that Gulliver worries...
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Gulliver's Travels
A "mock utopia" refers to the idea that a society might appear to be idyllic or might want to appear idyllic, but there is no such thing as a perfect society. "Mock" means "pretend" or "fake" and...
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Gulliver's Travels
Because of his size, Gulliver requires a great deal of problem-solving from the Lilliputians that they never considered. For example, in their first encounter, they use ropes and stakes to tie...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is written using first person point of view. With regard to point of view used in literary works, the three most common types are: First person: The story is...
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Gulliver's Travels
For reasons unclear, Skyris Bolgolam (the High Admiral) becomes Gulliver's "mortal Enemy" almost as soon as Gulliver arrives in Lilliput. Bolgolam's hatred of Gulliver increases after Gulliver's...
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Gulliver's Travels
When Lemuel Gulliver is shipwrecked, he washes ashore on an island and then falls asleep. When he wakes up, he has been tied down with ropes on numerous parts of body. He learns that this is the...
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Gulliver's Travels
According the the Houyhnhnm master, Gulliver's physical anatomy is sorely lacking in strength and purpose. In chapter four, the master horse and Gulliver enter into a conversation about yahoo...
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Gulliver's Travels
This question refers to events that unfold in chapter 5 of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel Gulliver's Travels. The main thing you need to be aware of when discussing this subject is that Lilliput...
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver is kind of an every man's man. He's not too rich and not too poor. He's not a scrawny guy, but Gulliver also isn't a hulk of a man either. He's well educated, but not super intelligent....
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Gulliver's Travels
After his initial negative reception in Lilliput, Gulliver soon became a friend to most of the Lilliputians, and the Emperor especially enjoys his company and respects him. However, Gulliver has...
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Gulliver's Travels
As his name indicates, Lemuel Gulliver's main personality trait is his gullibility. He easily believes what people tell him, and because he has a good memory, he can often recall their words...
