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A 10 page analysis of Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels. No additional sources cited.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
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that presents the reader with a very subtle and powerful look at politics, social practices, human nature, and colonialism. Through Gullivers journeys Swift essentially examines the various cultures and creatures
he comes upon from the perspective of an Englishman, but also as a human being with a desire to find truth and the most positive culture or society he could
find. The following paper analyzes Gullivers Travels. The essay breaks the analysis down into the categories that relate to his journeys as well as the introductory portions of the story.
The paper is divided into sections titled Preface, Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and Houyhnhnm. Preface In the introductory portion of the novel there
is a preface of sorts by the publisher, and Gullivers cousin, Richard Sympson. He offers an introduction of Gulliver, why he apparently went on the travels, and how he has
altered the records provided by Gulliver. Of course he notes that what he has cut out was information that seems essentially irrelevant to the story itself, which will not be
what Gulliver himself will note in a reply to this introduction. Sympson illustrates how "I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of
readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (Swift).
In his apparent answer to the claims made by Sympson Gulliver notes that there was a great deal left out, and altered, wherein he had a difficult time
even recognizing his own work, which clearly illustrates a sense that what was perhaps taken out was taken out for reasons of social and political focus. Gulliver notes the following
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