paper-2 - The Neo-Classical Literature

Topic    :-   Gulliver travels a satirical exposal of                                                fictional illusion.

Paper 2 :-   The Neo-Classical Literature

Name   :-    Devendra A Joshi

Class     :-    M.A. Sem-1

Submitted: - Ms. Heenaba Zala (Dept of English)                                    M. K. S. Bhavnagr University

Ø    Gulliver travels a satirical exposal of fictional illusion.

Jonathan swifts was born in Dublin in 1667 and he was died 1745. Gulliver travels published in 1726. The result was the famous prose satire battle of the book, written in the mock-heroic style to ridicule Bentleys retort.

It was begun in 1720 and finally published in 1726. It is at once a delightful, fantastic story of adventure for children, political allegory and a serious satire on human nature on contemporary politics, social institutions, religious, controversies and on the manners and moral of the age.

Part-1, A voyage to Lilliput deals with Gulliver’s experiences in the land of the little people.  It is on one level an obsorbing tale if the adventures of giant Gulliver among the Lilliputians and on another level rich in allegorical references to the politics in England.

Part-2, A voyage to brobdingnag the situation is reversed Gulliver is now marroned and dwarfed in the land of giants who are over forty feet tall: his glorious account of the English political system.

Part-3, A voyage to laputa,    balnibarbi, luggnagg, glubbdubdrib, and Japan, is a satire on the scientists and philosopher of the age. The people of laputa have extraordinary physical features heads turned at angle and the other in word.

Part-4, A voyage to the country of the houyhnhnms, narrates the experience of the Gulliver in the land of the houyhnhnms  or horses and the yahoo  Gulliver or man where the eighteenth  century had define as an animal whose most striking feature was the ability to reason. The horses with their total lack of feeling and emotion are seen as being far from ideal.

The travelogue, a popular genere of writing in the eighteenth century, chronicles the experiences and adventures of traveler.

The four parts of Gulliver’s travels are linked by the theme of travel and discovery of the parts starts off with a voyage leading to a destination. Hovever the voyage only works as a means to get to a place of adventure.

The places that swift describes and Gulliver visits lilliput, brobdingnag, laputa and the land of the houyhnhnms belong to the realm of fantasy and are figments of swifts’ imagination.

Satire is a literary genre in which human vices, weakness, foible and folies are held up to ridicule wit and humour are commonly used as instruments of satire. Satirical writings were popular in England in the eighteenth century. In Gulliver travels swifts’ uses satire as vehicle to point to the depraved state of humankind.

Satire in Gulliver’s travels also extends to human institutions to politics and the state.

Characters are central to the plot of any story, and especially longer fiction. Gulliver as a character is restless for adventure and new experiences. At the end of Gulliver travels, it is difficult to say if Gulliver is an eighteenth century allegorical figure or a rounded and complex character.

The imagery of size is used in Gulliver travels to draw attention to misplaced human pride and the face that power and self-importance depend entirely on circumstances and are not inherent in human nature.

Irony and satire are used liberally and forcefully in part-4 as lawyers are describes as proving by words multiplied for purpose that white is black and black is white ,according as they paid.