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Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels delivers an intricate, biting critique of 18th-century Europe and humanity in general. First published in England in 1726, the novel satirizes the travel narrative, a popular genre in the literature of the Augustan period. The story details the adventures of the intelligent and ...
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Critical Essays Swift's Satire in Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels was unique in its day; it was not written to woo or entertain. It was an indictment, and it was most popular among those who were indicted — that is, politicians, scientists, philosophers, and Englishmen in general. Swift was roasting people, and they were eager for the ...
Using certain political events of 1714-18, he described in Gulliver's Travels many things that would remind his readers that Lilliputian folly was also English folly — and, particularly, Whig folly. The method, for example, which Gulliver must use to swear his allegiance to the Lilliputian emperor parallels the absurd difficulty that the ...
Gulliver’s Travels: Allusions and Interpretation The allegorical mode of satire employed in Gulliver’s Travels offers much interpretative possibility. Beyond the question of where readers locate this work along the critical spectrum mentioned above, Gulliver’s Travels is a work of political satire which recalls the turbulent and sometimes absurd nature of Stuart and Georgian Court politics.
Gulliver’s third journey reveals to the reader three eternal problems of humanity: 1. The relationship between science and life, where science soars beyond the reach of mere mortals (the island of Laputa, populated by aristocracy obsessed with astronomy and geometry), and life slowly goes on as usual, more and more plunging into ignorance and poverty.
England in the 1720s. While Swift was writing Gulliver's Travels in the 1720s, England was undergoing a lot of political shuffling. George I, a Hanoverian prince of Germany, had ascended the ...
