Category: Gulliver’s Travels

Johnathan Swift is known as the greatest satiric writer in all of English literary history. Born m, without a father and his mom abandoning him to return to England, he was raised by his relatives. Swifts childhood was impaired with Meniere’s disease which caused vertigo, nausea, and hearing loss. In 1688, Swift migrated to Leicester,…

This extract of Gullivers travel novel by Swift appears at the end of the novel part IV chapter 5. The protagonist has already traveled in three different cultures. Here, he is with the Houyhnhnms society. He explains to his master the wars that occur in Europe and their motives of it. The author raises the…

Gulliver’s Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the ‘travelers’ tales’ literary subgenre. It is Swift’s first-rate recounted…

Many authors in English literature use the novels setting as an important characteristic to the story. Setting means the time and place in which a story takes place. Two famous literary works mentioned in this course stand out when comparing their use of the setting. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen take place in various…

For the second part of my Independent studies across the study weeks 11-17, I covered the option for Chapter six regarding Topics covered in Gullivers Travels. Further to this, I looked at two of the sub-headings Swift, Gullivers Travels and travel writing also, Swift, Gullivers Travels and colonial discourse. From my cursory reading of Swifts…

In the story, Gulliver’s Travels, it shows insight into the understanding that humans are not meant to know everything in life. It shows that all we understand we have as humans has a natural limit and this theme is a very important one in Gullivers Travels. The author finds all these different worlds while traveling…

Rev J. Martin once said: ‘Words are free. It’s how you use them that may cost you’. Often our society communicates so freely that before thought is even put into the context of our words it has already been spoken. Language has developed from a sophisticated way to communicate to now being whatever is on…

Gulliver’s Travels – Reading Response 1. What are your reactions to reading Book IV of Gullivers Travels? Did you find it interesting, surprising, amusing, challenging? Why? I find it interesting and amusing as Jonathan Swift very creatively swapped human nature with that of animal nature and gifted the animals a privilege to be human like.…