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Book Review Of Gulliver's Travels By Jonathan Swift

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Book review.
By : Daniella Horn

Title : Gullivers Travels

Author : Jonathan Swift Setting
Lemuel Gulliver travels to the fictional lands of: Lilliput,Blefuscu,Laputa,Balnibarbi,Luggnagg,Glubbdubdrib, and the country of the Houyhnhnms . All the fictional lands Gulliver travels to he sees them as ideal civilisations when he first encounters them but soon sees the faults within each government system and in its people. Gulliver also travels to Japan and back to his home in England after each of his four voyages to the fictional lands.

Narrative style
Gullivers travels is written in first person and Gulliver narrates his travels and
Characters ,it is written as if it were a travel journal which was common at the time this novel was …show more content…

They are unkept humankind creatures who work to serve the Houyhnhnms. The Yahoos are described to be from different ethnic groups as the have different hair colours. The Yahoos are extremely primitive as they are naked,filthy and primitive in general behaviour. Gulliver is extremely disgusted by the Yahoos and even more so when a young yahoo girl is attracted to him . In the end he believes he too is a Yahoo even tough he finds them to be completely repulsive and the Houyhnhnms exile him when they notice he similarities between Gulliver and the Yahoos ,this leaves Gulliver deranged and loathing to all humans including himself.

Language/dictation
Gulliver 's travels was written in first person and very factual which gives the reader the effect of reading an expedition journal and makes the story all the more realistic. In Lilliput Gulliver tries to communicate with the people who are holding him captive but does not succeed,the language that is used on Lilliput is similar to Hebrew which suggests that they are an ancient race .

Genre
Gullivers Travels has the genres of …show more content…

The ship Gulliver works on at he beginning of the novel runs aground and Gulliver finds himself on the island of Lilliput where he is kept as a prisoner until the people of Lilliput trust him. Gulliver entertains the royal family and becomes a national resource as he defeats their enemy Blefuscu. Gulliver extinguishes a fire in the royal palace with his urine and is sentenced to death and escapes to Blefuscu then sails back to England on a boat he finds.

Gulliver sets sail for the land of Brobdingnag where he is found by a farmer who treats him fairly well and sells Gulliver to the queen ,Gulliver entertains the queen with his musical talent. Gulliver is repulsed by ordinary flaws that have been magnified,the king of Brobdingnag knows othe abut pilot is and this comes as a shock to Gulliver. When going to the frontier with the royal couple, an eagle grabs Gulliver 's cage and drops him into the sea.

On Gulliver 's next voyage his ship is attacked by pirates and washes up in Laputa a floating island where it is inhabited by theoreticians and academics in Balnibarbi,these people undertake insane and ridiculous experiments and the are completely out of touch with reality, Gulliver travels to the lands of Glubbdubdrib ,Luggnagg and Struldburg from which he sails to Japan then back

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