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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Jonathan Swift:
Λ
Biography
Character s and Plot
8
10
12
31
41
Chapter
1:
Background to Gullivers Travels
1.
An Introduction
lo
Satire by Leonard
Feinberg
Gullivers Travels is one ol lhe world s greatest satires. Unless
the reader understands
lhe
principles of
salire,
rauch
ot
the
book s meaning may be lost.
Salire, a
necessary art, often
highlights mankind s follies and pokes fun
al
all
lhal
is
ridiculous in human affairs.
2.
Swift s World by Philip Pinkus
51
Jonathan Swift lived in a time of political upheaval, nearly
continuous warfare, and rapidly ehanging philosophies.
This tumultuous period produced some of the finest satire
ever written, including Gulliver s Travels.
3.
The Enthusiastic Reception
oľ
Gulliver s lYavels
by A.L. Bowse
Swift intended Gullivers Travels an an indictment of hu¬
manity, lie wrote more to trouble than to entertain his
readers. (Nevertheless, his contemporary readership was
delighted with the book, and even to this day, Gulliver s
Travels survives as
a story
less noted for its savage satire
than for its abilily to delight children and adults.
4.
Gulliver s Travels and Robinson Crusoe
by Nigel Dennis
65
Jonathan Swift read voluminously in contemporary (ravel
literature before composing Gulliver s Travels. The most fa¬
mous of such works, Daniel Defoe s
Robinson
Grusoe,
stands in complete opposition to Swill s notorious satire.
While Defoe celebrated man s abilily to persevere and over¬
come all obstacles, Swift writes a biting
salire
on human
frailly.
57
5.
Swift s Satire of English Politics
by Matthew flodgarl
76
While Swill s commentary on English politics in Gulliver s
Travels had little effect on his contemporaries thinking, the au¬
thor knew that he was writing a book for the ages as well. The
saine
follies and foibles Swift attacked in eighteenth century
England have always been present among mankind.
Chapter
2:
Theme and Technique in
Gulliver s Travels
1.
The Failure of Language in Gulliver s Travels
by Brian
Tippel
82
In each new land that Gulliver visits, he must, learn a new
language, and the use of words emerges as a major theme
in the novel. In each of these worlds, language is weakest
when
il
is most complex and strongest when most simple.
2.
The Frailty of Human Beings in Gulliver s Travels
byPaulFussell
91
As a product of the eighteenth century, Gulliver s Travels
suggests the dual manner with which contemporary
thinkers regarded mankind. While most humanists cele¬
brated the accomplishments and abilities of humans, a con¬
trary notion, implicit in the many physical ailments Gul¬
liver is subjected to during his travels, implies that man s
weaknesses are at least as prevalent as his strengths.
5.
Gulliver Is an Unreliable Narrator
by Karen Lawrence, Betsy
Seifler,
and
Lob Rainer 96
In the fashion of travel literature of his day, Gulliver meticu¬
lously reports every detail of his travels to far-off and myste¬
rious lands. However, in adhering so fastidiously to minor
points, Gulliver misses the larger implications of his travels.
4.
Swift s Technique of Reducing Men to Machines
Enhances the Satire by.
lohn
M.
Bullin
100
Swift often uses the technique of reducing intellectual con¬
cepts to mechanical, physical actions, as a way to mock hu¬
manity s lofty pretensions. Battles over wearing high or low
heels, or breaking eggs at the big or small end lower, com¬
plicated human ideas to the level of physical comedy.
5.
Gullwer s Travels Parodies First-Person Memoirs
by./. Paul Hunter
105
While most commentators deny that Gulliver s
Travels
par¬
odies other works of its time, Swift subtly pokes fun at
Daniel Defoe s Robinson Grusoe and other eighteenth-cen¬
tury first-person narratives.
6.
Lagado: Swift s Satire of Scientific Knowledge
by
Clive T.
Próby n
11 ()
Through the mad schemes ofthe Projectors in the city ol
Lagado, Swift satirizes the proceedings ofthe English
Royal
Society, a group of scientists founded in
1660.
Swill believes
that issues of morality are more important than scientific
knowledge.
Chapter
3:
Gulliver s Four Voyages
1.
Size as Metaphor in
Lilliput
by Jack G. Gilbert
116
Γη
the first part ofthe Travels, Gulliver is as morally up¬
right as he is large.
Τ
lis
magnanimity is contrasted with the
treacherousness ofthe Lilliputians, who prove to be as
small-minded as they are tiny.
2.
Size and Social Values in Brobdingnag
by Howard Erskine-HUl
125
Justas
readers start to admire Gulliver for his conduct in
Lil¬
liput,
Swift reverses the situation. When Gulliver displays
moral inferiority to his new hosts, readers are forced to
abruptly reject him and wonder about their own ethics.
3.
Lilliput
and Brobdingnag: Swift s Experiment
in Optics by W.A. Speck
134
By shrinking and then magnifying human beings in
Lilliput
and Brobdingnag, Swift is able to draw humor as well as
serious reflections on the nature of man. European society
fares badly when compared with the Lilliputian or Brob-
dingnagian cultures.
4.
Hopeless Worlds: The Third Voyage
by Michael
DePorte
1
41
Swift wrote the third voyage of Gullivers Travels last, afler
he had completed the section about the Houyhnhnms. Swift
depicts reason run to extreme in the lands in Part III. But
perfection is not a human quality, as Swift depicts through
the harebrained schemes ofthe Projectors and the fearful
eternal lives ofthe StruJdbruggs.
5.
The Limitations ofthe Houyhnhnms
by Boris Ford
147
Early commentators on Part IV of Gullivers Travels viewed
the Houyhnhnm society as
a utopia
based on logical think¬
ing. The Houyhnhnm society is far from perfect, however,
and the reader must realize that Swift the satirist is mock¬
ing the limitations of mankind, yet not suggesting that
people can possibly live in the manner ol the llouyhnhmns.
Chapter
4:
Reactions and Continuing
Relevance
1.
In Defense of Jonathan Swift
by William
Hazliii
Gullivers Travels presents a sobering view of human beings.
Swift s brilliance was in his character. If he was inwardly a
bitter, angry man, this harsh temperament produced the in¬
sightful wit and oiling satire of his writings.
2.
Gulliver s Travels Is the Product of a Sick Mind
by William Makepeace Thackeray
160
Such a depraved vision of mankind could only come from
within the man himself. Swift musl.be rebuked for his
shameful, blasphemous production.
3.
Swift s Unhappy Utopia by George Orwell
166
Jonathan Swift was an unhappy man who could see no
possibility of joy in this world and had no belief in an after¬
life. His Utopian vision in Gullivers Travels is therefore
manifested in the dull, coldly rational world ofthe
Houyhnhnms. Despite its limitations, Gulliver s Travels re¬
mains a great work of art that contains many unpleasant
truths about the human condition.
4.
Reading Gulliver s Travels as a Child and as
an Adult by Marcus
Curili
ff e
174
Adults who return to Gulliver s Travels years later after hav¬
ing read it as a child find the book to be a very different ex¬
perience. Swift s writings have been dismissed as the rav¬
ings of a diseased mind, but there is much truth to be
found in his inconsistent masterpiece.
Chronology
For Further Research
Index
181
184
186
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