GULLIVER’S TRAVELS - Analysis
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Gulliver and his travels to Lilliput have been a study of school students almost everywhere between class 5 and to doctoral studies in almost every part of the world.
As such there are many versions abridged, classic and translated versions of this despite movies and cartoons, people always liked the plot story and satire of Jonathan Swift.
Gulliver's travels is one of the great satires in the history of English Literature. The literary irony used in this novel is one of the best. The general focus point of the satire is the culture of people. The authority and power prevalent in the time of Jonathan Swift is given a satirical and dim view in this novel.
The now familiar Utopian kind of novel in its every detail! It takes the viewers literally to a new fantasized world of fictional islands with monstrous, beautiful and comic creatures away from conventional reality.
Some suggestions / threads for topics are:
- Size-Change in Gulliver’s Travels and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Political Situations relevant even today represented in Gulliver's travels.
- Scientists' Criticism on the Novel's description of nature - Justified or Not?
- Might Versus Right in Gulliver's Travels
- The thoughts of Individual vs Society
- Emphasis on the limits of human Knowledge and Wisdom
Here are some of the studies, critical and literary theories on them. not to mention the explanations on his satirical note..
If someone is planning a study on his novel here are some of the previous attempts.
More topics for English Projects
Resources
Full Novel : GULLIVER’S TRAVELS (1726) by Jonathan Swift
Studies / Articles / Resources
THE ORIGINS OF GULLIVERS TRAVELS
In retrospect: Gulliver's Travels
Economics and literature: An examination of Gullivers Travels.
Of Swift and men: the construction of masculinity in selected works of Jonathan Swift.
SWIFT'S FOOL: A Comment upon Satire in Gulliver's Travels
Lying, Language and Intention: Reflections on Swift
Politics vs. Literature: an examination of Gulliver’s Travels
Subversion of Enlightenment Discourse in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
The Politics of Travel in Gulliver’s Travels
" Gulliver ", Gulliveriana, and the Problem of Swiftian Satire
When Gulliver Travels : Social Context, Psychological Closeness and Self appraisals
The Sexual Politics of Microscopy in Brobdingnag
An Ecocritical Reading of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Physiological essay on Gulliver’s Travels: a correction after three centuries
Parody, Satire and Sympathy : Don Quixote and Gulliver's Travels
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