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Gulliver's Travels:- Comparision between 1 & 4 Voyages.
1. Smt. S.B. Gardi Department
of English
Name:- Rathod Neha R.
Class:- M.A. sem-1
Roll No:- 33
Email id:- neharathod108@gmail.com
Year:- 2015-2016
Paper No:- 2
Topic:- Gulliver’s travels comparison between
1&4
voyages
2. Gulliver’s Travels is the most famous
of all
the works of Swift. The germs of
this
book has been traced to the celebrated scriblerus club
which came into existence in the last months of queen
Anne’s reign, when swift joined with Arbuthnot, People,
Gay, and a few other writers in a scheme to ridicule all
false tastes in learning. This literary group was strongly
tory in character and functional as a kind of counter
balance to the wing circle which had grown up about
Addison and steele.
Gulliver’s Travels
Jonathan
SwiftIntroduction
3. Genre , Setting , and Mood
Genre:- Gulliver’s Travels is an obvious
satire piece.
Setting:- The setting of Gulliver’s travels is
mainly in England, but also in the fictitious
countries of Liliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa,
and the country of the Houyhnhnms. In the
past, during the 18th century.
Mood:- The mood is adventurous,
emotionally affecting, and also I think
ignorant at the same time.
6. The first part tell
about his experince
in
Lilliput, where the
inhabitants are only
six
inches tall, twelve
times
smaller than the
normal human beings. The emperor believed him self
to be the delight and terror of the universe, but it
appeared quite absurd to gulliver who was twelve
times as tell as he. In his account of the two parties in
the country, distinguished by the use of high and low
heels, swift satirizes the Tories and the whigs in
England. Religious disputes were laughed at in an
account of a problem which divided the Lilliputians:
“should eggs be broken at the big end or the little
A voyage to Lilliput
7. In the voyage to Lilliput,
religious and political division
are humorously burlesqued. The
folly of political and religious
fanatics is exposed with
reference to the constant
quarrels between the high-hells
and the low- hells, and between
the Big- endians and the little –
endians, in which the blood of
thousands of people has been
stand. Besides reflections of a
general nature, the voyage to
Lilliput contains particular
allusions to the royal court and
the politics of England.
8. A voyage to Houyhnhnms
The last part is the most
interesting account of his discoveries
in the Houyhnhnm land, where horses
are endowed with reason and all good
and admirable qualities, and are the
governing class. Country to the
Houyhnhnms the yahoos possess
every conceivable evil. They are
malicious, spiteful, envious, uncle and
greedy. Gulliver admires the life and
ways of the horses , as much as he
is disgusted with the yahoos, whose
relations remind him of those existing
in English society to such a degree
that he shudders at the prospect of
9. This voyage exhibits mankind
in a light too degraded for
contemplation, and the satire is
too exaggerated. However, if the
picture of the yahoos is
disgusting, that is exactly what
the author has failed to make the
portrayal of the Houyhnhnms to
be very attractive or inviting as he
aimed at doing. The
representation of the
Houyhnhnms is cold and insipid.
These beings have their virtues,
but these virtues are all negative.
The Houyhnhnms are devoid of
all those tender passions and
affections without which life
