Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver learns little from his travels except hatred for humanity and love for horses. What does the reader learn from Gulliver’s voyages?
After reading Gulliver’s Travels you see the details up close, and you see them from far away. The book shows you how meaningless some wars are, for example between the Lilliput and Blefuscu. There is no real huge conflict between the two and Swift implies this in different way. Gulliver also meets the Brobdingnagians, where the king shows Gulliver that the people of Europe are narrow minded and way underdeveloped than the Brobdingnagians. For Gullivers fourth voyage he ends up somewhere rather different from his first two, and finds himself wanting to stay. Looking at life from different perspectives.
Seeing life from bird’s eye view. On Gulliver’s first voyage he ended up at Lilliput, where everything is much smaller than normal and the average person is about 6 inches. Gulliver was basically the giant here and saw everything from far above. Gulliver is eventually seen as the hero when Lilliput and Blefuscu go to war, but Swift’s point of this war is to show the readers just how pointless the war is. It is mostly related to European history, where Lilliput is England and Blefuscu in France. He shows that the reason behind these wars are as silly as how a person choses to break and egg. "It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end." Swift suggests to the readers that it is impossible to interpret a right or wrong way to crack an egg and no one really knows the right way or wrong way. Why to go war for it? “Whereupon the Emperor his father publishes an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.”
A zoomed in look, on Gulliver’s second voyage he was not the giant but the small puny subject to a world of over sized people. On this voyage Gulliver meets the King of the Brobdingnagians
After reading Gulliver’s Travels you see the details up close, and you see them from far away. The book shows you how meaningless some wars are, for example between the Lilliput and Blefuscu. There is no real huge conflict between the two and Swift implies this in different way. Gulliver also meets the Brobdingnagians, where the king shows Gulliver that the people of Europe are narrow minded and way underdeveloped than the Brobdingnagians. For Gullivers fourth voyage he ends up somewhere rather different from his first two, and finds himself wanting to stay. Looking at life from different perspectives.
Seeing life from bird’s eye view. On Gulliver’s first voyage he ended up at Lilliput, where everything is much smaller than normal and the average person is about 6 inches. Gulliver was basically the giant here and saw everything from far above. Gulliver is eventually seen as the hero when Lilliput and Blefuscu go to war, but Swift’s point of this war is to show the readers just how pointless the war is. It is mostly related to European history, where Lilliput is England and Blefuscu in France. He shows that the reason behind these wars are as silly as how a person choses to break and egg. "It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end." Swift suggests to the readers that it is impossible to interpret a right or wrong way to crack an egg and no one really knows the right way or wrong way. Why to go war for it? “Whereupon the Emperor his father publishes an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.”
A zoomed in look, on Gulliver’s second voyage he was not the giant but the small puny subject to a world of over sized people. On this voyage Gulliver meets the King of the Brobdingnagians