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derhindemith 's review for:
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
Okay, so since the other edition was just the first two parts, I've finally finished the whole thing and it's worse than I thought.
Liliput was just an introduction, and his satire mainly limited itself to intrigues at court.
Brobdingnad gets to the meat of his satire and his complaints with modern life (government, social norms, human vices and foibles).
This would have been enough.
Instead, he repeats everything in three other locations, adding nothing new to his list of complaints (except more specificity) and it's just boring.
But wait, there's more.
Then he gets to his utopia. Spoiler alert: there is no government. Also, it's horses. And humans are service animals. And we get to his ideal society. Where reason and modesty are practiced equally by everyone. Oh, and some races of the same species are superior and some are inferior; hence, some races are just meant to be servants. But men and women should be completely equal. At least there's that.
And now that he's lived for three years in utopia, he finds reality utterly devastating and will never debase himself to consider society as tolerable.
Liliput was just an introduction, and his satire mainly limited itself to intrigues at court.
Brobdingnad gets to the meat of his satire and his complaints with modern life (government, social norms, human vices and foibles).
This would have been enough.
Instead, he repeats everything in three other locations, adding nothing new to his list of complaints (except more specificity) and it's just boring.
But wait, there's more.
Then he gets to his utopia. Spoiler alert: there is no government. Also, it's horses. And humans are service animals. And we get to his ideal society. Where reason and modesty are practiced equally by everyone. Oh, and some races of the same species are superior and some are inferior; hence, some races are just meant to be servants. But men and women should be completely equal. At least there's that.
And now that he's lived for three years in utopia, he finds reality utterly devastating and will never debase himself to consider society as tolerable.