What does Swift try to explain in by putting Guliver in the four different societies

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Topic: - What does Swift try to explain in by putting Gulliver in the four different societies.

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Year: - 2018-2020

Submitted to S.B.Gardi Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji,

Bhavnagar University.

Q. 1:- What does Swift try to explain by putting Gulliver in the four different societies?

Ans:- Introduction:- AuthoJonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift born in 30 November 1667 and death 19 October 1745 he was an Anglo - Irish. And satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric.

His work: - 1. A Tale of Tub (1704),

                   2. An Argument against 

Abolishing Christianity (1712),

                   3. Gulliver’s Travels (1726),

                   4. A Modest Proposal (1729).

                   Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland Raised by his Uncle, and Swift began attending Trinity College when he turned 14. Upon his graduation in 1688, Swift became politically active and served as the secretary for Sir William Temple, a politician associated with the Whig Party. 

Swift became a country parson for the Church of Ireland. And Swift took on the position as chaplain of the earl of Berkeley. His time spent in the religious and political landscapes helped inspire the writing of the political satires that he is remembered for today.

             He written dominant party, Tory government lost power, Church of England. And also wrote with his friend Alexander pope. Two friends wrote satirical work. At this time he wrote “Gulliver’s Travels.”

 “Gulliver’s Travels”:- 

Gulliver Travel First publish in 1726,

   Gulliver’s Travels in four part:- 

Part1. “A Voyage to Lilliput”, 

Part 2. “A Voyage to Brobdingnag”

                                                          
Part 3. “A Voyage to Laputa… and Japan” and  Part 4. “A Voyage to Country of the Houyhnms.

        Gulliver goes on four separate voyages in Gulliver’s Travels. Each journey is preceded by a storm. All four voyages bring new persectities and Gulliver satirizing the ways of England. In the he go to first the voyage is to Lilliput, Where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliputians are very small. 

At the first time the Lilliputians seem them for the ridiculous and petty creatures they are. The second voyage is to Brobdingnag, a land of Giants where Gulliver seems as small as the Lilliputians were to him. Gulliver is afraid.

      Gulliver is third voyage is to Laputa and neighboring luggage and Glubdugribb. His voyage is to the land of the Houyhhnms, who are horses endowed with reason. Their rational, clean and simple society is contrasted with the filthiness and brutality of the Yahoos. 

This four part in the Gulliver’s the question of whether physical power or moral righteousness should bathe governing factor in social life. Gulliver experiences the advantages of physical might both as one who has it , as a giant in Lilliput where he can defeat the blefuscudian navy by virtue of his immense size.

      As one who does not have it, as a miniature visitor to brobdingnag where he is harassed by the hugeness of everything from insects to household pets. His first encounter with another society is one of entrapment, when he is physically tied down by the Lilliputians; in Brobdingnag, he is enslaved by a farmer.

 He also observes physical force used against others, as with the Houhnms’ chaining up of the yahoos.

     Similarly, the use of physical force against the Yahoos is justified for the Houyhnhnms by their sense of moral superiority; they are cleaner, better behaved, and more rational. 

They overall, the novel tends to show that claims to rule on the basis of moral righteousness are often just as arbitrary as. The Laputans keep the lower land of Balnibarbi. Balnibarbi believes itself to be in the right in driving lord Munodi is the rational party.

     Many narratives about Voyages to nonexistent lands, Gulliver’s Travels explores the of utopia an imaginary model of the ideal community.Liliput is torn by conspiracies, jealousies, and backstabbing. The Houyhnhnms also practice strict family planning, dictating that the parents of two females should exchange a child with a family of two males. The Lilliputians in their wisdom and rational simplicity.

       Gulliver’s Travels could in fact be described as one of the first novels of modern alienation. Focusing on an individual’s repeated failures to integrate into societies to which he does not belong. The Yahoos, a strange sort of Animal, described. The author meets two Houyhnhnms. After five months at home, Gulliver leaves his children and pregnant wife yet again to go on his fourth voyage.

     This time as captain. Not long into his cabin for a great deal of time and threatening to murder him. Gulliver walks inland until he comes across a field of strange creatures. After observing them for some time he comments,

 “upon the whole, I never beheld in all my travels so disagreeable an Animal, nor e one against which I naturally conceived so strong an Antipathy.” 

Soon Gulliver comes to realize that these are actually naked human being behaving like cattle.

      Gulliver comes face to face with one of them. He hits it with the side of his blade when it comes at him violently. The animal like human. Gulliver hears the word Yahoo several times and repeats it to the teach Gulliver later learns is their word for themselves for horse . Gulliver observes that their whinnies to each other sound almost like a language. Gulliver and the grey horse arrive at a home where Gulliver expects to meet the horse’s human masters. 

After some discussion between the horse and his wife about where or not Gulliver is in fact a Yahoo, he is brought out to stable where the Yahoos are kept and is made to stand next to one of them . What is different here? Only Gulliver experiences slice Brobdingnan and his contact with the Yahoos.

      At that time that Swift wrote Gulliver’s Travels, England was the most powerful nation in the world, with a large fleet of ships, which were constantly searching for new lands to control. During these searches the English came into contact with several new civilizations.

Conclusion:-

        The travels seem almost possible in this context. But Swift choose to set the first culture Gulliver come into contact with as far as too small to be real. It is significant that Gulliver, coming from the most powerful nation in the world. Gulliver see the verity of society in the travels and lost of thing he know benefits of travels he become a knowledgeable man in the world. 

First he know a small human being how spend life second he know higher human being how to spend life and third he know technological  knowledge and four he know Yahoo and animal between whose is a better understand human being life so he putting four different society and he know lot many thing.

    

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