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An 8 page paper which compares the culture and
practices of the Lilliputians, from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," and Shaka Zulu.
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Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAlillip.rtf
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culture/society of the Lilliputians in Jonathan Swifts "Gullivers Travels." In real life we have many different cultures which have presented us with powerful and mesmerizing cultures or societies. One of
the most intriguing of these has been that which involves the great leader Shaka Zulu. In the following paper we examine the two cultures and illustrate how, though they were
just a small example of the possibilities, they were also cultures which present us with overbearing and powerfully controlling pictures of leaders. The paper finishes with a comparison of the
two societies. Lilliputians "At the beginning of the story, the first and most widely known of Captain Gullivers voyages was that of the one to Laputa. The voyage begins
with Captain Gulliver and his men shipwrecking" (Anonymous A Summary of Gullivers Voyage to Laputa, 2002; Summary.html). Every individual on the ship was drowned, save for Gulliver, who falls asleep
on the shore only to awaken and find himself tied up by many little people, the Lilliputians. These little people move him to the city where he meets the
emperor of the people. "His features were strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip, and arched nose. Gulliver describes the Lilliputians originally as an attractive rationally conducted people" but then
"in chapter IV we learn of their violent internal factions, unceasing civil squabbles, and their bloody war with a neighboring country" (Anonymous A Summary of Gullivers Voyage to Laputa, 2002;
Summary.html). The emperor sees the advantage to having Gulliver on their side and asks him to assist them in making a strike against the enemy. This bloody war,
between the people, is actually the result of the king having cut his finger while breaking open an egg. "He ordered that all people must break the egg from the
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