Otázka: Gulliver’s Travels
Jazyk: Angličtina
Přidal(a): terez2242
Author: Jonathan Swift
- satirist, essayist, poet
- He published all of his works under pseudonyms – such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier– or anonymously
- He had deadpan (dry humor), ironic writing style
Work:
- the Travels was published under a pseudonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver – ship’s doctor and later a sea captain
- Gulliver’s Travels is an anatomy of human nature
- Each of the four books (or 4 parts) describes the way to fictional exotic countries and has a different theme
Part I. – A Voyage to Lilliput
- Travel begins with a brief introduction in which the author (Lemuel Gulliver) gives a brief overview of his life and history before his voyages
- Then he went on a voyage and he stay on the island of Lilliput because his ship failed in the ocean
- He found out that he was like prisoner on this island – there were people only 6 inches tall!
- Later he became popular on the island and understood the emperor (císař)
- He helped the Lilliput to destroy enemies from the neighbouring island – he stole all their ships
- he was later charged (obviněn) with treason (velezrada) and decided to leave for the next island
- at the end he returns to his native Englandà on the boat
Part II. – A Voyage to Brobdingnag
- on his next voyage he failed again, but now it was on the other island
- he was on island where lived giant people – he was scared because other left him
- giant people was approximately 60 food tall
- one man took him home – he had wife and 9 year- old daughter
- small daughter was like his nurse – she was taking care of him
- he had own box where he lived
- he went on exhibitions – people wonder how he looks like
- later he lived with the king and his queen
- Gulliver spoke with the king about politics and about situation in England and in Europe
- In the end when Gulliver was ill he slept on the beach and the eagle took him and put him into the ocean – Gulliver found some English ship in the ocean and arrived home
Part III. – Gulliver’s Third Voyage
Part IV. – A Voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms
