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A 5 page paper which examines the novel with respect to the statement, “The unusual and the unexpected are characteristic features of the plot of a good literary work.” Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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June 2001 -- properly! It has been said that, "The unusual and the unexpected are characteristic features of
the plot of a good literary work." Using Jonathan Swifts 1726 fantasy tale, Gullivers Travels, as an example, that is quite the understatement. Swifts novel has been described
as both biting satire and "an allegory of eighteenth-century life" (Hart 369). Jonathan Swifts fertile imagination concocted a plot, the likes of which, eighteenth-century readers had never seen before.
He was able to satirize the English society of his time to such "ludicrous Extremes" (McNeil Jonathan Swifts Voyage to Laputa) that it was rendered unrecognizable. Most
likely, readers did not realize that their way of life was being skewered by a master of parody; they were far too caught up in a plot that had more
twists and turns than a roller-coaster. The plot of Gullivers Travels concerns a quartet of journeys undertaken by Englishman Lemuel Gulliver is subdivided into the four journeys undertaken in the
evolution of Lemuel Gulliver, a young man who is bored by prim and proper society and eager to experience a world which exists beyond Britains pomp and circumstance. First,
Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where the normal-sized man is regarded as a circus freak by the six-inch Lilliputians. They cant figure out if he is a human being or
a mountain. He tries to ingratiate themselves with them, but is taken prisoner. When a document detailing the terms of his freedom is drafted, he is first expected
to join the Lilliputians in their ongoing war against the enemy territory of Blefuscu. This is a most unusual representation of the ongoing disputes between England (Lilliput) and France
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