Gulliver Travels

For a longer period of time this book is considered as a book for children. but it has a deep hidden political satire. Swift satirizes his own Nation as well as other institutions of society.

In Lilliput people were tiny nearly six inches tall. it symbolically suggests the narrow mindedness of people.

In the second part people were giant in their height. There is also reference of two powerful nations, symbolically read as England and France, which were constantly fighting.

In Laputa, they have to keep flappers to wake them up. This is the bold criticism on intellectual people.

He criticized such an extent that horses were better there than humans. and when he returns, he prefers to live with animals than human community.

Part:2

He lands in an unknown country to get water and is abandoned. A giant reaper picked him up (he is in the country of gigantic Brobdingnagian), and took him to a farmer, who wants him to be on exhibit as a freak. There he fights with a gigantic cat and other monstrous animals. The Queen of Brobdingnag buys Gulliver and sells him to the King.  The farmer’s daughter, who got befriended with Gulliver, is hired by the King as Gulliver’s guardian and nurse. Gulliver quarrels with the King’s dwarf, but describes England in detail to the King. Gulliver is carried around in a box and tours the kingdom.

Part:3

Gulliver leaves on his third voyage. His ship got captured by pirates, who set him in a small boat adrift. He arrived in the flying island of Laputa, which flies over the continent of Barbarian. The people he met there are interested only in abstract speculations. Their King asks him only about the mathematics in England. He learns that the island kept flying by magnetism.

Part:4

 

Voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms

On his fourth voyage, Gulliver is set on shore in an unknown land by the mutineers. That was the land of the Houyhnhnms who were intelligent, rational horses who kept repulsive animal -like human beings called Yahoos as their servants. There the horses were civilized like the human beings and also were clean. He describes Houyhnhnms as the people of perfected nature and emotional barrenness