An Analysis Of Gullivers Travels

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An Analysis of Gulliver's Travels

When I first started reading the book I thought its only purpose was to talk
about the political system in England. But after some pages I found that there
could be a deeper message concealed, between the lines somewhere. The book is
divided into four minor novels. The first is about the Lilliputian's the second
about Gulliver visits the giants, the third about the flying island and last
about Gullivers travels to the land of Houyhnhmland.

In the first book Gulliver gets shipwrecked and ends up on the island Lilliput
were some inhabitans of the island finds him and ties him to the ground. The
king hears of the news and sends the army to stop the giant from escaping.
Gulliver is then taken to the king's castle were he is searched fore weapons or
other dangerous items. The Lilliputians are divided into two tribes. One is
holding Gulliver and the other lives on the second island which is separated
from the first by a canal (resembles of England and France) . Gulliver is at the
littlenders and the enemy is the bigenders which live on the island of Blefuscu.
Gulliver helps the Littlenders to defeat the bigenders. In this book Swift
emphasises the stupidity in the war between England and France and also every
war which starts over a stupid reason, he also points out the meaningless in
courtlife were they do nothing but waste the states money.

At he lilliputians he builds a raft which he uses to sail back to England. But
instead he finds himself shipwrecked and washed upon the shores of Brumbidang or
the giants land. there he was found by a farmer whom handed him over into his
daughters care. The farmer uses Gulliver for finical reasons and shows him up as
a side-showfreak at all the inns in the land. In the giants land there are no
classdeffirences this is something that probably Swift wanted to i...

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