Gulliver's Travels
Beginning of paper
Although it appears simple and straightforward on the surface, a mere
travelogue intended solely for the amusement of children, , by
Jonathan Swift, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful
work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England.
Throu ....
Middle of paper
.... For instance, in book one, "A Voyage to Lilliput", when Gulliver finds
himself lost in a world one-twelfth the size of his own, he proves himself to be
quite naive and impressionable. Although he is simply too large to perceive
them in detail, Gulliver judges the country's inhabitants he meets to be as
perfect and innocent as their toylike appearances. He refers to the Lilliputian
emperor, a being not even six inches high, as “His Imperial Majesty” and blindly
agrees to p ....
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Word count: 769
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
