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Gulliver's Travels - Coggle Diagram
Gulliver's Travels
Author and Context
Jonathan Swift
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Studied at Dublin university, but was not the best student and only obtained his degree by a special favour.
After university, he became very studious, but this was not always helpful to his career. He began to feel like society is letting him down
He was then continually let down by people like the king, and lords, who did not keep their promises of hiring him.
He wanted then to become a poet, but his cousin did not like his poems.
He wrote some pieces of little importance including his first satire in 1704, and some political pieces that gained some attention
Finally he had some success when he wrote Gulliver's travels in 1727. Criticism was lost for a while because of the wonder of such a radical new piece.
After that he produced a few more pieces, but none as big as Gulliver's travels. In 1741 he was assigned guardians because of madness, and he finally died in 1745
Significance
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Before Gulliver's Travels there was really no category for novels. Prose was only reserved for nonfiction, while adventures and conflict was well established in the theater and in poetry.
In addition to establishing the novel, he used fiction as a weapon and as entertainment. His entire book is satire (funny mocking) of civilization
Summary and Setting
Story about Gulliver, a ship's doctor that travels new and silly places
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Gulliver has seen mankind from every angle, and he despises us.
Worldview
Swift was not a jovial (easily laughable) person. His book is actually not primarily to make people laugh, but rather to despise mankind. Gulliver sets out amused by mankind and it's folly, but ends up despising it
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