Student´s name: Ana Fort Rodriguez

Title of the paper: "The real meaning of Gulliver´s travels" (A deep analysis of the play)

Author or topic: Jonathan Swift

Abstratc or summary of the research using not more than 100 to max 150 words:

    First of all, I will say, that the play which I´m trying to work in my research is "Gulliver´s Travels" written by Jonathan Swift.
    The main characteristic of this play is that we are dealing with a satire "hidden" by a sort of adventures.
    What I will try to do in my work is uncover the real messages of these adventures, analysing the symbologism inside them.
    By this way, we´ll discover that the author´s purpose is to refer to important things such as politics or human being using a science - fiction story.
    So, in every travel, Swift will show us a sort of values which ones he feels identified or not.
    But the question I want to explain in my final work is not only a simple explanation of the values mentioned above but also the reasons that motivate Swift to do this kind of play.
 
    So, I will reffer basically to his biography in which we´ll see his controversal personality and how deeply the circunstances of the century affect him.
    Because of this, Swift uses words to attack hardly the things that he consider inapropiated in his society and for do it, he uses the irony.
    And it´s this irony the reason that motivates me to make this research, because behind simple words such as the Swift ones there´s a symbolical that we should discover or at least try to discover.