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Gulivers Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels was an amusing satirical travelogue to read through, but you wouldn’t enjoy this book if you aren’t very into social or political topics. To really enjoy the book you have to notice the references to today’s social and politic issues. He mentions issues from the real world like the effect that comes with physical and knowledgeable ability on an individual’s power and the effect that an extremely rational government has compared to one with many irrational complexities. Gulliver has 4 main experiences. The first two parts are coupled together showing through Gulliver’s perspective what it is like to have a high status socially and then what it is like to live a life as almost an object with no status at all. The first part of the last half of the book mocks a society that focus merely on pointless scientific inventions and the very last part of the book mocks a rational society through portraying the effects it has on Gulliver when he returns to the real world.
The first literary device I noticed while reading was through the use of the egg. Swift was able to portray how perspective is very important to coming to a conclusion. The reason swift made the Lilliputians go to war with the Blefuscus was because the way they cracked their eggs. He was able to reference the real world by making the small men and women symbolize actual people in the real world. In the moment for the Lilliputians and Blefuscus, it seems to them like what they are fighting for is the most important thing there is but on the outside the issues seems silly. The use of the egg was a major point that swift was using to send a message to the author that how one views a certain issue is more important than the issue itself.
Another main literary devices that Swift used was through the names of the different species he encountered. There were many complicated and hard to remember names in the book such as the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms. He mentions early in the novel of his mastery in several different languages. On the surface this could be the explanation as to why he is able to learn how to communicate with the different species he encounters but this could also play into the reason of why he is so knowledgeable when it comes to the many different perspectives that are mentioned. The way I liked see it was that each of the different locations the unorthodox species he encountered were actual real world places where he traveled to and met these different people and he used their different attributes to write the novel.
The first literary device I noticed while reading was through the use of the egg. Swift was able to portray how perspective is very important to coming to a conclusion. The reason swift made the Lilliputians go to war with the Blefuscus was because the way they cracked their eggs. He was able to reference the real world by making the small men and women symbolize actual people in the real world. In the moment for the Lilliputians and Blefuscus, it seems to them like what they are fighting for is the most important thing there is but on the outside the issues seems silly. The use of the egg was a major point that swift was using to send a message to the author that how one views a certain issue is more important than the issue itself.
Another main literary devices that Swift used was through the names of the different species he encountered. There were many complicated and hard to remember names in the book such as the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, and Houyhnhnms. He mentions early in the novel of his mastery in several different languages. On the surface this could be the explanation as to why he is able to learn how to communicate with the different species he encounters but this could also play into the reason of why he is so knowledgeable when it comes to the many different perspectives that are mentioned. The way I liked see it was that each of the different locations the unorthodox species he encountered were actual real world places where he traveled to and met these different people and he used their different attributes to write the novel.