Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift | Summary & Analysis
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Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe provides an in-depth analysis of the plot, characters, symbols, themes, and motifs of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels.
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In Jonathan Swift's iconic satire Gulliver's Travels, the titular protagonist journeys to strange lands and interacts with their even-stranger inhabitants.
As he ricochets from one ridiculous adventure to the next, Gulliver's faith in humanity and its constructs is utterly dismantled.
His encounters with the minute Lilliputians, the gigantic Brobdingnagians, and the Houyhnhnms, a race of talking horses, among others, illustrate the absurdities of 18th century English society.
Through his depictions of bizarre social customs, tyrannical leaders, and arcane intellectual pursuits, he casts a gimlet eye on a country both fraught with conflict and revolutionized by the Enlightenment.
Irish writer Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was first published in 1726. Despite holding various political positions and rising through the ranks of the Irish church, he used his writings to prod unrelentingly at the failings of politics, religion, and Enlightenment thinking in general. Full of both pointed observations and scatological humor, Gulliver’s Travels is a touchstone of narrative social commentary.
The satirical, adventurous novel Gulliver’s Travels contains many enduring themes, including abuses of power, as those who have power display intolerance, no matter how much Gulliver likes them. The cerebral versus the real world is also explored, as the most learned people Gulliver meets are often the least practical and compassionate. Another theme is society versus the individual, as each society Gulliver visits has practices everyone must conform to. Important motifs include bodies, language, and reversal.
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Who else is here to study for a test
I'm here to prepare for a summer project lmao book was too boring
Mee😂
I have to write an essay on it tonight and I haven't read the whole book😳
i have a paper due tomorow and i havent even began to understand the book
@@joshuapoddo51 ok, just take down notes from video and research more into it, then that will help, that's what I did, the book is very all over the place lmao😂
I could listen to you say “Who when nem!” all day ;)
Thank YOU SO MUCH for this video.
This video is very helpful! Thank you!
To the reader's of this noveI; What do you think about that idea
"Man goes to the moon and billions of dollars spent and yet there are a lot of people hungry "
deep and realistic
@@amberzulfiqar2484 because it happened. Guess the US-russian space-race was more important than countless starving/homeless people
Wasn't there to make the call but that's what humanity always chooses
Sad truth
It’s remarkable love from Nepal 🇳🇵
I think you've completely missed the whole Yahoo/Houyhnhnms relationship and theme.
please will you explain what it means?
Provide an explanation for that.
Thanks this saved my presentation
most helpful. thank you.
Great video!!
I'm just waiting for this guy to say "inconceivable!"
Helpful video
Good job
thanks
I love this
it may be a little better if he was slower a bit :D but thanks anyway, appreciate it.
The plot is interesting but the writing style is awful. I can't get through this book so thanks for the summary.
Guys whats your favorite scene from this book?
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Is it just me or did the video repeat sections?
It's to get the message through our thick skulls.
watching the jack black movie as a child definitely gave me an extremely incorrect impression on what this story is actually about lmao
Whats your favorite scene of this book?
you are my savior!
GSC vul zel rawh se ❤🎉
Does Gulliver go from being a giant to being little?
Nope,when he's going home,the storm destroys his ship and he lands on an island that's oposite to Lilliputians, full of gigantic people, named Brobdingnagians
how does swift try and make society better?
he doesn't, this story at first was made "to vex the world"
But I think it directs you to introspection.
Volume 4 is the best.
He does not, he just criticises it.
Call it constructive criticism.
In which sense gulliver's charachter is special ?
Pippo
daje bella pe te chicco
Watu wa ENG 410 😂✌️
Are Yahoos can b the family of Gulliver culture?In future , if a Yahoo women tries again?
Like if you are here from mister northstar!