Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels is a novel written in 1774. The novel recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman who is a surgeon. Gulliver takes to the sees when his business proved to fail. Gulliver's Travels is narrated in the first person and does not show any sign of deep emotional response or self reflection. Gulliver narrates the adventures that befall him on these travels. Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput starts when he wakes after his shipwreck to find himself bound by many tiny threads and addressed by tiny captors. His captors are in awe of Gulliver but fiercely protectiveof their kingdom. Although they use violence against Gulliver with their tiny arrows, they are hospitable and risk famine in their land and still feed him. Lilliputians get to abore Gulliver because they consider him to be different, since he cracks eggs in a very different way. Later Gulliver is convicted of treason for putting out a fire in the royal palace with his urine and is condemned to be shot in the eyes and starved to death. Gulliver is able to escape to Blefuscu, where he repairs a boat and set sail to England. He stays in England with his wife and family for two months, and then he undertakes his next sea voyage. He goes to a land of giants called Brobdingnag. The natives treats him as little more than an animal, keeping him for amusement. Gulliver is sold to the queen by a farmer. Gulliver feels repulsion for the physicality of the Brobdingnagians, whose ordinary flaws are magnified by their huge size. Gulliver feels startled by the ignorance of the natives, even the king knows nothing about politics. Fortunately, Gulliver leaves the place when his cage is plucked by an eagle and dropped into the sea. Gulliver sets sail again, and after being attacked by pirates, ends up in Laputa, where a floating island onhabited by theoreticians and academics oppresses the land below, called Balnibarbi. The scientific research undertaken in Laputa and Balnibarbi proves to be totally impractical, and its residents too appear to be wholly out of touch with reality. Gulliver sail to Japan and from there back to England. In his fourth journey, Gulliver sets out as captain of a ship, buy after the mutiny of his crew and a long confinementin his cabin, he arrives to an unknown land. The land is populated by Houyhnhnms, rational-thinking horses who rule and by yahoos, brutish creatures who serve the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver learns their language and then he narrates his voyages and explains the constitution of England. The horses treat him with great courtesy and kindness and is enlightened by his many conversations with them and the exposure to their noble culture. The horses finds him similar to a Yahoo, and he is banished. Gulliver leaves the place and arrives in an island, where he is picked by a Portuguese ship captain that treats him well. Gulliver can not help seeing all humans as shamefully Yahoolike. Gulliver concludeshis narrativewith a claim that the lands he has visited belongs by rights to England, as her colonies, even though he questions the whole idea of colonialism. The novel is a satire of the society of the period in England. Where people were too much concentrated on superficial matter, and science. Moreover colonialism was a very importan aspect for England. I recommend reading this novel since it is very fanny and imaginative.
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