Gulliver's Travels: Summary
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Many of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an
insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift
wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for y ....
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.... are about six inches tall, and there size signifies that
their motives, acts, and humanity are in the same, dwarfish (Long 276). In this
section, the royal palace is accidentally set on fire, containing the empress
inside. Instead of making his way across town, to the ocean, squashing the
people of Lilliput as he goes, Gulliver makes use of his urine to save the
palace. While this vulgar episode was a display of bravery, it infuriated the
emperor, causing revenge to be vowed on Gulliver. ....
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