ANALISI Gulliver and the Lilliputians, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica ANALISI Gulliver and the Lilliputians e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! GULLIVER AND THE LILLIPUTIANS Gulliver and the Lilliputians belongs to the Book 1 of Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver's Travels is an utopian novel written by Jonathan Swift. It displaces an immaginary world and characters in order to satirize the English society. It has four settings that are linked to the four Gulliver’s voyages. In the first one, Gulliver is the only survivor of a shipwreck, and he swims to the island of Lilliput where he meets the Lilliputians, small people the tallest being only about six inches high. In the second voyage Gulliver lands on the land of Brobdingnag inhabited by a race of giants. In the third one he lands on the land of Laputa where the inhabitants are astronomers, philosophers and scientists. In the last one he reaches the land of the Houyhnhnms, a country governed by intellectual horses. Swift uses the first person narrator so Gulliver is both the narrator and the main character. He is a typical European, middle-aged, well educated, sensible and pragmatic man. This novel can be read as a tale for children, as a political allegory, as a parody of voyage literature, as a masterpiece of mishantropy and as a reflection on the haberrations of human reason. In the extract “Gulliver and the Lilliputians” the Lilliputians are at first in Gulliver’s hands and then in his coat-pockets and into every pocket about him. They give him the name “Great man- mountain” because he is a giant compared to them. Then they make a detailed inventory of Gulliver’s pockets. Gulliver