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Perfectly Insane - Gulliver's Travels

As a seemingly wise and educated man throughout the Swift’s classical novel Gulliver's Travels, the narrator cleverly gains the reader's respect as an intelligent and observant individual. With this seed planted, the comments and ideas that Gulliver impose upon those reading his four books have their own identity as they correspond with his beliefs and statements on the state of civilization, and humanity in general. Everywhere Gulliver goes he seems to comment on the good and bad points of the people he encounters. Although he does find many good virtues in others, Swift gives him a generally negative and cynical attitude towards the manner in which his fellow Englishman behaved, ...

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giant not only put into perspective the selfishness and unrelenting need for power of the human race, but also opened his eyes to the untrusting and ungrateful nature of those little critters. Another bad point is their pride and conceit, illustrated best by the Emperor, with his title, “Golbasto Molmaren Evlame Gurdilo Shefin Mully Ully Gue,” (Swift 30) which means, “most Mighty Emperor of Lilliput, Delight and Terror of the Universe, whose Dominions extend five Thousand Blustrugs, to the Extremities of the Globe….” (30) If that isn’t a bit cocky, I don’t know what is (especially considering he’s only six inches tall.) Under the Emperor comes the society’s ridiculous manner in which one earns stature. "For as to that infamous practice of acquiring great Employment by dancing on the Ropes, or Badges of Favor and Distinction by leaping over sticks, and creeping under them; the reader is to observe, that they were first introduced by the Grand father or the Emperor now reigning; ...

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Added: 12/6/2008 08:56:32 PM
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