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author: Jonathan Swift
type of work: Novel
genre: Satire
date of publication: 1726
narrator: Lemuel Gulliver
setting: eighteenth century in the
imaginary places he visit
Plot
Main Ideas
an imaginary model of the ideal community
Thomas More’s Utopia
Plato’s Republic
Swift nod Swift nods to both works in his own narrative
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he is more skeptical
they tend to privilege the collective group over the individual
Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.
human condition is dirtier and lowlier than we might like to believe it is
how nonexistent he feels without the reassuring cover oh clothes
Gulliver appears to be a gifted linguist
He learns the languages of the lands he visits
often gives the original as well as the translation
gulliver's description is nearly idyllic
"The behaviour of these animals was . . . orderly and rational . . . acute and judicious."
represent the ideal of rational existence, a life governed by sense and moderation
armonious and happy life, although quite lacking in vigor
may be why Swift chooses to make them horses
Curiosities
Satire
Imperfections
"I cannot but conclude the bulk of your native to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the Earth"
The King of Brobdignag
(Part 2 - Chapter 6)
They became the strong point of the novel
We can recognize nowadays' world in his critic
1944 the founders came across this word
were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web"
was renamed "Yahoo!"
of course the reference is playfully
it refers to ugly, gross and rough people