Gulliver's Travels
February 27, 1996
As a seemingly wise and educated man, throughout the novel Gulliver's
Tarvels, the narrator cleverly gains the reader's respect as a thinking and
observant individual. With this position in mind, the comments and ideas that
Gulliver inflicts upon those reading about his journeys certainly have their own
identity as they coincide with his beliefs and statements on the state of
humanity and civilization in particular. Everywhere Gulliver goes, he seems to
comment on the good and bad points of the people he encounters. Sometimes, he
finds a civilization that he can find virtues within, but he also encounters
peoples and places which truly diusgust him in their manner of ...
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but also opened his eyes to the untrusting and ungrateful nature of
those aforementioned. When he first arrived in their land, the Lilliputians
opted to tie him up, giving him no freedom, which he luckily did not object to.
Then, once they had developed a somewhat symbiotic realationship with him,
Gulliver was basically forced to abide to their whims and fancies, and
ultimately to be their tool in war. At any time, Gulliver could have escaped
their grasp, but instead, he opted to stay and observe and oblige to their
customs. He was a very agreeable guest. He did tricks for them, he saved their
princess from her burning castle, he defeated their mortal enemies, and all he
was rewarded with was their spite and mistrust. From the start, no matter how
cordial and well-behaved he was, there was little trust bestopwed upon him by
the people that bound him to their home. Also, Gulliver explains the
rediculous manner in which one becomes accredited in their society. "For as to
that ...
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at a severe
stress to their own resources. At this point, some very strong assertions have
been made about humanity, but we must go farther into the story to draw any real
conclusions.
Although there wasn't much said in this section of the book, the second
voyage to Brobdignag put Gulliver in a very compromising situation which made
him simply the pawn of social commentary by Swift. The people of Brobdignag
treated Gulliver in an almost rediculous manner. They put him in a cage like we
do with rodents, and were truly simple in their ideas. "The Learning of this
People is very defective; consiting only in Morality, History, Poetry, and
Mathematicks; wherin they must be allowed to ...
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