Gulliver's Travels By Daniel Defoe Analysis

Crusoeby Daniel Defoe and Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift” (Queiroga).
Gulliver’s Travels, while full of delightful irony and sarcasm, is also riddled with adult content and themes. Some of this adult content borders on salacious and introduces children to sexual themes, particularly outdated ones that are not appropriate for them at any stage of their development. For example, the relationship between Gulliver and twelve-year-old farmer’s daughter, Glumdalclitch, is inappropriate and some critics have argued that it even alludes to pedophilia, with their relationship having even undertones of sado-masochism. An element like this needs to be removed from the translation, because one does not want children to think that a relationship between a young girl and a full grown adult male is appropriate or acceptable, particularly one where she gives him a pet name that means “doll.”
Furthermore, much of the story is sexually charged with the complications of adult relationships, something children should not be exposed to. For example, when the women of the Brobdingnagian court use Gulliver as a sexual plaything, this is a clear example of content that needs to be removed from the translation. Moreover, because of their size, Gulliver finds their natural feminine smells revolting. Again, this is yet another example of ideology that one wants to take care to remove for a child audience. The children that read this book will eventually hit puberty, a time when their own bodies