Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English Name:- Rathod Neha R. Class:- M.A. sem-1 Roll No:- 33 Email id:- neharathod108@gmail.com Year:- 2015-2016 Paper No:- 2 Topic:- Gulliver’s travels comparison between 1&4 voyages

Gulliver’s Travels is the most famous of all the works of Swift. The germs of this book has been traced to the celebrated scriblerus club which came into existence in the last months of queen Anne’s reign, when swift joined with Arbuthnot, People, Gay, and a few other writers in a scheme to ridicule all false tastes in learning. This literary group was strongly tory in character and functional as a kind of counter balance to the wing circle which had grown up about Addison and steele.

Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift Introduction

Genre , Setting , and MoodGenre:- Gulliver’s Travels is an obvious

satire piece.Setting:- The setting of Gulliver’s

travels is mainly in England, but also in the fictitious countries of Liliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. In the past, during the 18th century.

Mood:- The mood is adventurous, emotionally affecting, and also I think ignorant at the same time.

Gulliver’s Travels Four Voyages

A voyage to Lilliput A voyage to Brobdignag

A voyage to Laputa A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms

Comparison between 1&4 Voyages

A Voyage to the Country of

Houyhnhnms

A Voyage to Lilliput

The first part tell about his experince in Li ll iput, where the inhabitants are only six inches tall, twelve times smaller than the normal human beings. The emperor believed him self to be the delight and terror of the universe, but it appeared quite absurd to gulliver who w as twelve t imes as tell as he. In his account of the two parties in the country, dist inguished by the use of high and low heels, sw ift satirizes the Tories and the whigs in England. Religious disputes were laughed at in an account of a problem w hich divided the Lill iputians: “should eggs be broken at the big end or the l ittle end?”

A voyage to Lilliput

In the voyage to Lilliput, religious and political division are humorously burlesqued. The folly of political and religious fanatics is exposed with reference to the constant quarrels between the high-hells and the low- hells, and between the Big- endians and the little – endians, in which the blood of thousands of people has been stand. Besides reflections of a general nature, the voyage to Lilliput contains particular allusions to the royal court and the politics of England.

A voyage to Houyhnhnms The last part is the most

interesting account of his discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land, where horses are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities, and are the governing class. Country to the Houyhnhnms the yahoos possess every conceivable evil. They are malicious, spiteful, envious, uncle and greedy. Gulliver admires the life and ways of the horses , as much as he is disgusted with the yahoos, whose relations remind him of those existing in English society to such a degree that he shudders at the prospect of returning to his native

This voyage exhibits mankind in a light too degraded for contemplation, and the satire is too exaggerated. However, if the picture of the yahoos is disgusting, that is exactly what the author has failed to make the portrayal of the Houyhnhnms to be very attractive or inviting as he aimed at doing. The representation of the Houyhnhnms is cold and insipid. These beings have their virtues, but these virtues are all negative. The Houyhnhnms are devoid of all those tender passions and affections without which life becomes a burden.

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