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OName : Vora Kiran Shamaldas.OClass: M.A SEM:1ORoll No. – 20OPaper no. 2 Neo – Classical LiteratureOUnit – 2OTopic – Gulliver’s Travels First VoyageOEmail id- [email protected] to- Smt. S. B. Gardi
department of English M. K. Bhavnagar university
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan
swift
Presentation topic: Gulliver’s Travels’ First Voyage
About the BookO Full title: Gulliver’s Travels or
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver
O Author: Jonathan SwiftO It is a Satirical NovelO Protagonist : Lemuel GulliverO Time and Place: 1712-1726,
London and DublinO Setting : Early 18th century,
England and imaginary places.O Themes: Might vs. Right, an
individual vs. society, limits of human understanding
Lemuel GulliverO Lemual Gulliver is the narrator
and protagonist of the novel.O He is an practical minded English
man, whose life wasn’t emotional. O The style of his narration makes it
clear that he is a well educated and intelligent person.
O He is a trained surgeon, he works on a ship called Swallow.
O He marries Mary Burton, and becomes a doctor in London. But his business fails so he returns to sea.
O Gulliver narrates the adventures that he experienced on these travel.
First voyage: LilliputO Gulliver goes to a sea as a
surgeon on a merchant ship – Antelope.
O The ship gets destroy due to a heavy windstorm.
O Only Gulliver survives, and swims to near by island – Lilliput.
O Because of this ordeal, he was tired so he falls asleep on the sand.
O When he wakes up, he finds the inhabitants of that island surrounding him, but what shocks him is that they are no longer than six inch.
O It was an island of tiny men called Lilliputians.O Gulliver was tied to the ground with threads, he realizes that
Lilliputians has captured him.O He was about to get up but was immediately attacked by
arrows, so he lies there in that position, couldn’t do anything.O Lilliputians builds a small stage for a person to talk to
Gulliver but when he speaks Gulliver doesn’t understand his language.
O He was hungry and thirsty, the Lilliputians provides him both.
O Gulliver thinks to attack them but he was actually impressed with their bravery and feels grateful for their hospitality towards him.
O They carries him on a board of 22 wheels, 900 little, men drags him.
O When arriving there, they ties his one leg to a temple, Gulliver has only freedom to move around or lay down inside the building.
O The emperor comes to visit Gulliver but both of them couldn’t understand their languages.
O Gulliver had given guards to protect him against citizens, every one comes to see him. A group of 6 citizens when visits him, they shoot arrows at him, one was dangerously close to his left eye. Then they were given to Gulliver to punish them as he wishes, he puts 5 in his pocket and he takes the 6th one to his mouth pretending to eat but he doesn’t, this gesture of Gulliver gains favor, respect and trust from the people who were watching.
OMeanwhile, the emperor holds conferences with his men trying to think what to do with Gulliver.
OBut things change when Gulliver is convicted of treason for putting out a fire in the royal palace with his urine and is condemned to be shot in the eyes and starved to death.
Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, where he is able to repair a boat he finds and sets sail for England.
AnalysisOGulliver begins the story of his
journey in the typical pattern of the travel narratives of that era.
OBy setting up the narrator as a normal person Swift helps readers to relate to him as Gulliver is a trustworthy and a regular guy.
O It is obvious that these beings – Lilliputians are Swift’s imagination because this kind is impossible to exist in real world.
OWhen Swift wrote this novel, England was the most powerful nation in the world, with wide fleet of ships that searching for new places to take control.
ODuring this the English men came to know about many different civilizations.
OBut Swift chooses to set the first culture that Gulliver comes into contact is as far as too small to be real.
O At the same time, it is apparent that even though Gulliver fears the tiny arrows of the Lilliputians, he could easily escape from there if he put his mind to it. Why did he choose to stay?
O Might possible that he is curious about the Lilliputians, their culture, language, and ways of living.
O Gulliver's curiosity for knowledge were established in the first few paragraphs of the novel.
O Or because Gulliver enjoys the power that comes with being a giant - even as a prisoner in Lilliput, Gulliver is the most powerful being on the island.
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