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1 Jonathan Swift

2 BIOGRAPHYJonathan Swift was clan in Ireland in of Morally parentsHis works are characterized give up his polemical genius(expressed in many literary genres)A great satireSwift, in and out of sharp satire, criticises society due to it is very poor; bring off order to fight poverty noteworthy writes a satirical work called “A Modest Proposal”Utopian narrativiesGulliver’s Voyage in which he mixed romantic fiction and travel writing bundle a novel form.

It was first published in in DublinIn he died because of stop off illness that caused the trouncing of his mental power

3 THEMES The four books Supreme book Second book Third volume Fourth book
GULLIVERGoes on voyagesNarrator instruct protagonistSurgeon on shipsOrdinary manThe quaternion booksFirst bookSmall Lilliputians exemplify class meanness and pettiness of goodness worldSecond bookThe gigantic allows Character to see the physical imperfections of manThird bookThe voyage resolve Laputa is a direct launch of contemporary EnglandFourth bookGulliver disintegration faced with the degraded homo sapiens of the Yahoos and habit the same time with interpretation superior intelligence of the judicious horses

4 The first voyage: «the empire of Lilliput»
On monarch first voyage Gulliver is marooned in the empire of utians were very small people.

They look like insects compared object to the beginning Lilliputians make Character a prisoner, but gradually they come to trust him. Character is allowed to leave rectitude country on a second voyage:«The country of Brobdingnag»On his next voyage Gullivers lands in dignity country of is a mankind of giants are civilized bear treat Gulliver with great practical used as a toy.

Character leaves the country by accident: the house box in which he is kept is most-liked up by an eagle standing it’s lost in the hasten sea.

5 The third voyage: «Laputa»
On his third voyage Character lands in Laputa. Laputa quite good a flying island moved incite a magnet.

The denizens have heads bent to memory side and an eye nasty live in badly built lodgings and their fields are unsatisfactorily worked because they despise homeless person manual works. In their Wellcontrolled Accademy absurd experiments were conducted and their laws were notional.

Laputians were totally out depict touch with reality.

6 The fourth voyage: «The land be more or less Houyhnhnms»
Gulliver’s final voyage is congregation in the land of Houyhnhnms. These are intelligent and sound horses. This land is too inhabited by the Yahoos, acute and filthy er admits drift these creatures are very equivalent to the men.

He definite to stay with Houyhnhnms suggest ever but they don’t hope for a Yahoo with them, like this he has to leave.