This book was definitely weird. While I understand it is written as a satire, most of it went over my head since it is so specific to the time period in which it was written. The notes on the text helped so I got a basic understanding, but still did not get the majority of what Swift was saying. How...
What a stinging satire on English politics.The most intriguing is how Gulliver's mindset has changed over the course of four discrete voyages and comes to think of his circumstances differently upon his return home. The allegories and satire appear to elude many who simply look at the story at face ...
this novel is one of the best novels in 18th century as we know , every satirist is a reformer , as the satire always aims to correcting humans follies and human vices swift in this book had pinpointed the follies and vices which he had witnessed in the english society of his time
I'm really perplexed by this one...So, Jonathan Swift is constantly described as a satirist. So this book is satire, right? The problem is that I don't have much context into what Swift is poking fun at, so the joke's on me for finishing this book.First of all, I think of Gulliver's Travels as a car...
Gulliver's Travels is the satirical tale of the fictional seafarer, Lemuel Gulliver, an ordinary everyman (although, oddly, he can learn any new language in a matter of days or weeks). The tale takes the form of his narration of his adventures in the bizarre lands, with even stranger inhabitants, wh...
I read this about 30 years ago, and I loved this return trip through it. It's perfectly amazing to me how fresh Swift's comments and insights are. To think that this book is almost 300 years old - amazing! People just don't change. People's situations just don't change.
IMHO it's a pretty entertaining and well written political satire, though many of the author's opinions are very, very dated (after all it's written long long ago), especially when he is showing his conservatism. Another interesting part for me might be the Grand Academy, where many ideas ridiculed ...
baeh, While some parts are entertaining, the big remainder is a torturous chore. The old writing style coupled with first person narrative and the book being a satirical comment on then-contemporary British did not work for me.Better classics exist.
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