character anylisis gulliver travels

Ø Introduction:  johndhan was born swift was born to lawyer in Dublin 1667 and attended Trinity college. He went on be a politician secretry,a county person, chaplain all of which provided material for his satires about the political and religious corruption of his society. During his brief time in England, swift Alexander pope, and others formed the scribblers club resolving to write books satirizing modern knowledge.

Ø Gulliver’s Travels characters

·       Lemual Gulliver: A married English surgeon, Gulliver wants nothing to do with domestic life and leave England have adventures in far off lands. he was resourceful, open minded ,adamant about his own truthfulness and remarkably fast learner of new languages. Though Gulliver is gland return to England after his three adventures in Lilliput.

Lemual Gulliver was star and central character of Gulliver travels .he narrates the novel himself, and he was the only genuinely developed character in the whole book.gulliver mentions his wife, mary,in passing as he stays home just long enough to get her pregnant again before high seas. Gulliver is pretty much it when comes to rounded, individual character in this novel. Gulliver is the son of a middle class family in Nottinghamshire, England.

He was studied medicine both in England and the University of Leaden in Holland. Both of these traits come in handy. First Gulliver’s medium class birth means that he is pretty flexible in terms of the social circles he moves in. he always wants to associate himself with “people of Quality”

He also falls relatively easily into conversation with working class people and servants. He really seem to be a kind of Everyman, maybe more resourceful than many but not too brave or powerful.

Second, Gulliver’s interested in languages and customs is the primary engine for his travels. He is good at adapting himself to other cultures. He take a genuine interest in human which makes him the perfect narrator a novel about human nature.

So Gulliver has a genuine interest in people at beginning of the novel. But it sure does not last and by the end of the novel, he is totally over it. The novel about what wretched wastes of space we humans are, it makes sense that the only logical conclusion the end of part elf to other cultures. He takes a genuine interest in human which makes him the perfect narrator a novel about human nature.

So Gulliver has a genuine interest in people at beginning of the novel. But it sure does not last and by the end of the novel, he is totally over it. The novel about what wretched wastes of space we humans are, it makes sense that the only logical conclusion the end of part 4, Gulliver has gone from being a pretty open, flexible kind of guy to being a crazed shut in who can’t stand the smell of his own wife and kids.

·       MARY BURTON: Gulliver marries Mary Burton in the first chapter of his travels, but he never exactly spends a lot of time with herein fact even though she expressly asks him not to go back sea the end of part of 3 ,he was ,leaving again part 4.gulliver’s return from Houyhnhnm land that he resolves to stay home but not because he’s filled with a strong sense of family. the small and appearance of human seems revolting to him. Mary has borne him children has added to the overall human population is utterly revolting to him.

              

·       Mr. JAMES BATES : As with the all characters in Gulliver ‘s Travels expect for the title character,

MR.JAMES BATES exists mainly as a name, without any particularly distinctive traits. Gulliver won’t stop referring to the guy as his “master bates”.

·      Richard sympson:  Richard sympson is Gulliver’s cousin and he is editor of travels. Gulliver strongly resent sympson’s edits.

·      The Lilliputians: the inhabitants of Lilliput, the Lilliputians are just a few inches tall. They are engaged in extended battles with their neighbors, the blefuscans.

·      The Lilliputian king : king of Lilliput, the Lilliput king is initially welcoming, friendly and generous with Gulliver but he grows petulant, vengeful and cold after Gulliver won’t help him enslave the Blefuscians. and many others.

What is Gulliver’s Travels About And Why Should I Care?

When we first start seeing ads for director James Cameron’s CGL extravaganza Avatar, we were like, warrior smurfs? But now that we have seen it, whoa, are we impressed. It is not just the beautiful visual material that kept us riveted to our seats. We were also fascinated by the whole idea of the a vatars: when wheelchair-bound Jakes sully gets to walk, run, and jump using his new better body ? it was as though we were running and jumping for the first time in who knows how long. We take a lot of things for granted in our daily lives. The great thing about science fiction or fantasy is that it can take totally familiar aspects of human experience and show them to us again in a fresh light. Avatar makes basic and running –seem new and remarkable.

But you may be saying to your selves, what does Avatar have to do with Gulliver’s travels? Well, James Cameron is drawing on a long fantasy tradition of bending reality to make ordinary things seem strange and unfamiliar. And Gulliver’s Travels is one of the granddaddies of this genre. Swift take regular topic like political, international relations, math and science, even old age twists them. He makes political differences seem tiny by sending Gulliver to Lilliput and he makes math and science seem airy and far from daily life by floating the island of Laputa overhead. By depicting human customs we take for granted as weird and alien, Gulliver’s we take for granted as weird and alien, Gulliver’s Travels is asking us to look at them again as though for the first time.

But what Gulliver uncovers during his travels is nowhere near as lovely as James Cameron’s Pandora. He finds nearly everything about people- their desires, their interests , even their smell- totally repulsive. Gulliver’s Travels reflects human being back to us in all kinds of creatively disgusting ways. This is a book to read when you are feeling mad at people in general .

Gulliver embarks on four separate voyages in Gulliver’s Travels. There is a storm before every journey. All the four voyages add new perspectives to Gulliver’s life and also give him new opportunities for satirizing the ways of England.

In the first voyage, Gulliver travels to Lilliput, where he is huge and the Lilliputians are small. Initially, the Lilliputians look amiable but the reader soon understands that they are very ridiculers and petty creatures. For “making water” Gulliver gets convicted of treason in the capital –among other “crimes.”

In the second voyage, Gulliver travels to Brobdingnag, which is a land of Giants and he is as small as the Lilliputians were to him. so, naturally, Gulliver is scared but his keepers are surprisingly gentle. He gets humiliated by the king when he is forced to see the difference between how England is and how it ought to be. Gulliver soon understand that he must have been very revolting to the Lilliputians.

In the third voyage, Gulliver travels to Laputa. When he visits the island of Glubdugdribb, he gets the power to call up the death of history. In the land of laputa . the people are over- thinkers and are outrageous in many ways. He also meets the stuldbrugs there, which is basically a race that is blessed with immortality. But Gulliver finds out that they are miserable.

In the fourth voyage, gulliver travels to the land of Houynhnms,  who are horses gifted with a reason. Their coherent, clean, and trouble –free society is contrasted with the foulness and brutality of the yahoos, who are beats in human shape. Gulliver manages to unwillingly come to recognize their human vices. He ends up staying with the Houyhnhnms for many years and gets totally captivated with them to a point that he never wants to leave. when he gets to know that the time has come for him to leave the island. He faints from unhappiness, when he returns to England, Gulliver feels appalled about other humans, including his own family.

Jonathan swift Gulliver’s Travels is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship’s surgeon, who because of a series of mishaps enroots to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown island living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experience and then set out again on a new voyage.

Conclusion:  The conclusion of Gulliver’s Travels raises        enough issue to deserve being treated separately from the rest of the fourth voyage. A section that includes chapter and a letter from Capt. Gulliver to his cousin sympson, the conclusion is a disturbingly unsettled narrative, filtering experience through Gulliver ‘s increasingly exacerbated vision. From the moment he becomes attached to the Houyhnhnms, there seems to be no complacent, unknowing self. Yet his attachment to his memories gives Gulliver’s character a degree of moral and psychological ambiguity that is not evident earlier in the voyages. Gulliver is unable to reconcile himself to his wife, family, friends or country, but it is impossible to say with certainly whether his misanthropy is the outcome of idealism or wounded pride. The former quality is apparent in his eloquent attack on European imperialism. The latter in the histrionic exaggeration of his claims for the moral efficacy of his travels.