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Gulliver's travels

Key Facts

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

The four voyages

Gulliver

Lord Munodi

Don Pedro

Queen of Brodingnag

Main Ideas

Main Ideas

Themes

Physical power

or

Moral power?

Might Versus Right

Utopia

an imaginary model of the ideal community

Thomas More’s Utopia

Plato’s Republic 

The individual Versus Society

Swift nod Swift nods to both works in his own narrative

he is more skeptical

they tend to privilege the collective group over the individual

The Limits Of Human Understanding

"The undertanding has a limit, and it is satirized when it does not produce result"

Motifs

Motifs are recurring structures, contrasts, and literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes.

  • Gulliver urinates to put out a fire in Lilliput
  • Brobdingnagian flies defecate on his meals
  • The scientist in Lagado tries to transform excrement back into food

Excrement

human condition is dirtier and lowlier than we might like to believe it is

Clothing

  • extraordinary attention to clothes
  • psychologically complex meaning
  • deep-seated anxiety about his identity
  • selfhood
  • desperately need to be fashiones as a personality
  • nudity extreme vulnerability

how nonexistent he feels without the reassuring cover oh clothes

Gulliver appears to be a gifted linguist

Foreing Languages

He learns the languages of the lands he visits

often gives the original as well as the translation

Symbols

Lilliputians

  • Humankind's excessive pride
  • Possessed by the need to show off their patriotic glories
  • Corruption and fights between parties

Lilliputians

Brobdingnagians

  • The Brobdingnagians symbolize the private, personal, and physical side of humans.
  • Some aspects of them are disgusting, but others are noble.
  • Brobdingnagians symbolize a dimension of human existence visible at close range.

Laputans

  • folly of theoretical knowledge
  • no relation to human life
  • no use in the actual world
  • tradtional knowledge (tested over centuries)
  • absurdity of knowledge

Laputans

  • worries
  • persuit of a form of knowledge not directly related to the improvement of human life

Houyhnhnms

gulliver's description is nearly idyllic

"The behaviour of these animals was . . . orderly and rational . . . acute and judicious."

Hovyhnhnms

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

Satire

  • Swift used allegory in order to convey his 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

Yahoo

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

Gulliver Park Valencia

Gulliver Park Valencia

  • In Valencia near the Turia river
  • 70 meters Long
  • Liliputians experience
  • The function of draining rainwater
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