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Gulliver's Travel⛵️ (1721-25) - Coggle Diagram
Gulliver's Travel⛵️ (1721-25)
The sources
literature of travel, both real and imaginary
Un acquaintance with the work of the Royal society
Elements of politial allegory
The imaginary voyage used by French writers as vehicle for their theories and utopias where men lived a simple, uncorrupted life.
Moral satire
The character of Gulliver
Middle-aged, well educated, sensible and a careful observer
Has experience of the world
Fully supports the culture which has produced him
Differs from the typical travellers because the people he meets are in no sense children of nature.
Disgusted by everything at home expressed in the novel by the constant opposition between rationality and animality.
The Story
BOOK 4
Gulliver's last voyage ⛵️ leads him to the island of Houyhnhnms, rational horses that rule over the Yahoos, a vile species of animal resembling human beings. He returns in England but he cannot stand their smell of humanity, therefor he goes to live in the stable.
BOOK 3
Gulliver's ship attacked by pirates and finds him self on a flying island of named Laputa. The inhabitants are absents-minded astronomers, philosophers and scientist who make absurd experiments. The island drops Gulliver on Japan.
BOOK 2
Gulliver finds him self in "Brobdingnag". The natives argiants twelve times as tall as Gulliver. His size causes him many misadventures and he finally the King's pet, kept in a cage and dropped in the ocean. Then he is rescued by a ship and returns to England.
BOOK 1
Gulliver sails from Bristol and, after six months he casts upon the shore of "Lilliput", whose in anhabitants the Lilliputians, are only six inches tall.
Jonathan Swift
Originality
Constant displacement of the hero
Comparison not with men but with animals
Gulliver both as an object and an instrument of satire
Style
A prose style which is matter-of-fact
Free of literary colouring
First-person narration
Record of observed details with the precision of a scientific instrument