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Gullivers Travels 3 - Essay

Gullivers Travels 3

In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, the main character,
Gulliver, embarks on numerous journeys bringing him to strange
lands and affecting his views of the world around him. His
response to each voyage differ as do his ideas and reactions to
the environment in which he is residing. Gulliver begins his
expeditions with a very social and open behavior while possessing
a general acceptance of any newly encountered beings. But by the
end of the fourth voyage, Gulliver leans toward a more
anti-social attitude which was derived from the hatred and
disgust he has for human beings, the “Yahoos.”
As for the first voyage to Lilliput, Gulliver acts very
sociable ...

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his liberty hath been granted when he could have easily crushed
and killed these little people. Gulliver is also very eager to
be able to interact with the creatures and this is evident when
in a few weeks he “made a great progress in learning their
language” (68). He is also quite helpful and there are two
definitive cases of Gulliver displaying this helpfulness in the
country of Lilliput. The first occurs when he obeys the orders
of the king to destroy his opposition’s navy and ends up
stringing up the navy of Blefuscu rendering them helpless. Then
he saves the fiery palace by relieving himself onto it,
extinguishing the flames. As you can see throughout the first
voyage, Gulliver was very sociable and friendly to those he came
in contact with.
An anti-social behavior is then exhibited near the end of
the last voyage, after he leaves the country of the Houyhnhnms,
because of his new found disgust and hatred for the rest of the
world ...

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Added: 6/30/2004 12:17:52 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1024
Pages: 4

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