An Analysis of Guliver's Travels;Voyage to Liliput

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Generations of schoolchildren raised on the first Book of

"Gulliver's Travels" have loved it as a delightful visit to a

fantasy kingdom full of creatures they can relate to_little

creatures, like themselves. Few casual readers look deeply enough

to recognize the satire just below the surface. But Jonathan Swift

was one of the great satirists of his or any other age, and

"Gulliver's Travels" is surely the apex of his art.

"Gulliver's Travels" tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's

surgeon who has a number of rather extraordinary adventures,

comprising four sections or "Books." In Book I, his ship is blown

off course and Gulliver is shipwrecked. He wakes up flat on his

back on the shore, and discovers that he cannot move; he has been

bound to the earth by thousands of tiny crisscrossing threads. He

soon discovers that his captors are tiny men about six inches

high, natives of the land of Lilliput. He is released from his

prone position only to be confined in a ruined temple by ninety-

one tiny but unbreakable chains. In spite of his predicament,

Gulliver is at first impressed by the intelligence and

organizational abilities of the Lilliputians.

In this section, Swift introduces us to the essential confli

his basic needs are to be attended to, and six scholars are to

his courtiers. They are handsome and richly dressed, and the

have tried to do. You cannot say that the Emperor "is" George I,

Gulliver first asks to be freed and is refused.

Lilliputians find no sense in that. A similar "trial" requires

current Emperor's grandfather initiated a new religion which

most importantly, note that Gulliver stopped his game when someone

between the Big-Enders and the Little-Enders. During Swift's

of one's ability to govern than dancing on a rope, but the

various English sects which considered themselves Protestant, and

Approximate Word count = 1123
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: Novels

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