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Gulliver's Travels: A Masterpiece of Prose
Feb 28, 2017 09:10 PM 4840 Views
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Today I'm going to write the review of Gulliver's Travels


Gulliver's Travels, an allegorical novel, the master piece of artsmanship, is a classic novel, penned by Swift. It is a


prose satire on society. The novel shows the human nature. An allegory is that genre that gives two level meanings; the


surface meanings and deeper meanings. Since, the novel is an allegory, it is somewhat hard to understand at first hand


because a second attempt to comprehend the real meanings is required. So most of the readers find it a piece of trash


without knowing it true worth.I grabbed the novel, went through it, surfed on the net, and now I am writing this review.


It is the travel tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the central figure of the novel. The novel consists of four Books or four


Voyages:(1) A Voyage to Lilliput, the land of Dwarfs;(2) A Voyage to Brobdingnag, the land of giants;(3) A Voyage to


Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan, ; and finally(4) A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms, the land of Horses far superior to human-like Yahoos.


The novel exhibits a number of historical references and incidents allegorically, for example, The Urinating of Gulliver to


extinguish the fire symbolizes Swift's grudge with Queen Anne.  Flimnap is Sir Robert Walpole.Rope Dance satirizes the


awkward criteria and traditions of getting a chair in the Court.The Big-Endians and the little-Endians portray the


political and religious grudges over petty issues.The war between the  Lilliputians and the  Blefuscudians symbolizes the


long French-Anglo hostility.Similarly, there are scientists who put forward their impractical theories. They have knowledge


of advance level, but they are unable to use it in practical work-a-day life. They propound new theories and ideas to the amazement of people, but fail either.


The last part is the most controversial since it is ever written. For in this part Swift prefers horses to humans.He


himself says about this "to vex the world rather than divert it". He did not belittle human race but un-mask it


realistically and a realist is always a cynic.


The novel is included at the UNIVERSITY LEVEL education as well as in Competitive Exams, in the elective paper of English


Literature.To me, the novel requires our second attention. To mine the essence of the novel, we have to dig deeper than


mere scratching the surface.  It is sublime, lofty an elevated.


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