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THE ACADEMY OF LAGADO - Coggle Diagram
THE ACADEMY OF LAGADO
narrative style
LANGUAGE
accurate
detailed
satirical and engaging tone
NARRATOR
omniscent
first person
direct speech
SEVERAL DETAILS
people visited
culture
education
social mentality
SATIRE
used with a
PARODIC INTENT
exaggeration
makes fun of society and involve readers
paradox
lies
tells the visit to the
island LAPUTA
flying city
inhabited by people who dedicate
MUSIC
unable to apply these disciplines for
pratical purposes
MATHEMATICS
MAIN THEMES
DISCOVERY
unexplored lands
scientific discoveries and inventions
estraction of the sun's rays from cucumbers
reduction of human excrements into original food
new methods of construction of homes
PROSPECTIVE
disproportion created when scientific thought is separated from reality
GULLIVER
he understood negative aspects of reason
INHABITANTS OF LAPUTA
educated in many areas, but have little pratical sense
don't realise how devoid of real knowledge they are
IN BRIEF
message
this novel significant and very current even today
DEGENERATION
MORALS INCONSISTENCY
criticism
INTRODUCTION
:
"GULLIVER'S TRAVELS" was published in 1726
author:
JONATHAN SWIFT
at the beginning he used a
pseudonym
under name
LEMUEL GULLIVER
travels to particular people invented by himself
Gulliver
= repulsion for men and their degradation
is the same
Swift manages to balance the novel's great complexity
Swift
= repulsion for his contemporaries
critique of society and human behavior
SATIRE AS TOOL
extract of the
fifth chapter
, of the
third book
after visiting the governor's estate, Gulliver visits the Academy