Gulliver's Travels

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Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Kathy Schafer Application 4
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Jonathan Swift His Life

• born in Dublin, Ireland
• educated at Trinity College in Dublin
  (1682-89),
• receiving his B.A. in 1686 and M.A. in
  1692
• in 1695 he was ordained in the Church of
• Ireland (Anglican), Dublin
• throughout the reign of Queen Anne (1702-14),
• Swift was one of the central characters in
  
• the literary and political life of London

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Selected Works

• A TALE OF A TUB, 1704
• THE BATTLE OF BOOKS, 1704
• TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE
  WORLD... BY LEMUEL GULLIVER. 1726
• A MODERS PROPOSAL, 1729

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Gullivers Travels The Novel

• Type of work Novel
• Genre Satire
• Language English
• Time and place written Approximately 17121726,
  London and Dublin
• Date of first publication 1726 (1735
  unabridged)
• Publisher George Faulkner (unabridged 1735
  edition)
• Narrator Lemuel Gulliver
• Point of view Gulliver speaks in the first
  person. He describes other characters and actions
  as they appear to him.

• Tone Gullivers tone is gullible and naïve
  during the first three voyages in the fourth, it
  turns cynical and bitter. The intention of the
  author, Jonathan Swift, is satirical and biting
  throughout.
• Tense Past
• Setting (time) Early eighteenth century
• Setting (place) Primarily England and the
  imaginary countries of Lilliput, Blefuscu,
  Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the
  Houyhnhnms
• Protagonist Lemuel Gulliver

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Part One Gullivers Adventures in Lulliput

• Lemuel Gulliver recounts the story of his life

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Part TwoGullivers Adventure in Brobdingnag
Gulliver is discovered by several of these huge
creatures that are, in reality, very large
(giant-like) human beings
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Part ThreeGulliver Discovers the Island of
Laputa

• floating island
• The language of the Laputans relies heavily on
  mathematical and musical concepts, as they value
  these theoretical disciplines above everything

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Part Four Houyhnhnmland
Houyhnhmns master of the Yahoos, the savage
humanlike creatures
Rational horses who maintain a simple, peaceful
society governed by reason and truthfulness
Have the greatest impact on Gulliver
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Works Cited

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• Gulliver at laputa. (2005). Retrieved May 22,
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  23, 2005, from www.klassiker-der-
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• Laputa. (2005). Retrieved May 24, 2005, from
  www.islomania.com/laputa/