INTERPRETATIONS
GULLIVER's TRAVELS
IT’S A
POLITICAL ALLEGORY
1) FIRST
JOURNEY
GREED
CORRUPTION
PROVINCIALISM
They
see GULLIVER as a weapon to destroy
their enemies
Swift refers to some political
figures of his time The
idea is that they do nothing in the public interest
2)SECOND JOURNEY
The giants of BROBDINGNAG VANITY
PRIDE
SELF-LOVE
Gulliver sees how the Lilliputians
saw him The idea
is that the human body may be an obstacle to SPIRITUAL GROWTH
3)THIRD JOURNEY
It’s a SATIRE against the new theories
and abstract thought
In particular Swift attacks the
ROYAL SOCIETY (THE OLDEST SCIENTIFIC ACADEMY)
4)FOURTH JOURNEY
The HOUYHNHNMS are HORSES REASON
LOGIC
RESPECT
The YAHOOS are men-like apes (a SUB_HUMAN RACE) The idea is that underneath humans are indeed just like the Yahoos, only a bit more sophisticated in their being rough and violent
Simple Definition of ALLEGORY
a story in which the
characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for
a political or historical situation
Simple
Definition of satire
a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak,
bad, etc. : humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person,government, society, etc.
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