According
to the paper, all points mentioned have been treated. Biographical information
has been provided and his most famous books has been named. The Gulliver's
Travels has been analised and I have included the contents of the
book, a summary and a critical review. However, the work could have been
more exhaustive and contain more information.
Subjects
I would have dealt with in this literary work are the title and the social
information of the book.
The original
title of the book was Travels into several Remote Nations of the
World. In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain
of several ships that was shortened after and substituted by Gulliver's
Travels.
Another
important question about Jonathan Swift's book is that it became a book
for children, the same as Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
They were so critical that society turned them into children books.
Gulliver's
Travels talks about customs in the eighteenth century and makes
a critical analysis of the society of the time. Critical view becomes more
violent in the last trip of Gulliver to the Houyhnhnms' country. Horses
are the upper class and Yahoos are the lower class. Yahoos look like humans
and work for horses. These Yahoos are horrible humans because they are
like humans in the past: they don't know any language, walk like gorillas...
They are like prehistoric humans. In that particular country, Gulliver
is considered an exceptional Yahoo but is also in that country where Lemuel
turns into horror to humanity. When he returns to his country, he can't
stand living with humans. This idea shows the social corruption.
Travels
go from Lilliput, where people are very small, to Houyhnhnms' country.
He travels also to Brodingnag, where people are very tall, to Laputa, Balnibarbi,
Luggnagg or Glubbdubdrib. Swift used these travels in order to critise
english society, aristocracy and science, and more subjects related to
the eighteenth society.
In my opinion,
the lack of information could be filled with these aspects.
To sum
up, it has been a difficult task to do this work because computers were
not familiar to me.
However,
I think I am capable of coping with these new technologies without problems.
Furthermore, publishing this work has been a difficult task for me because
I had not used a computer in such way.
So, I
hope you can forgive my mistakes and take into account that I am new in
this subject.
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you for visiting my page and, if you have some idea or suggestion to give,
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Academic year 1998/1999
28 May 1999
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López
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