Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four

Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain

of Several Ships

Tiona Coleman, Maddie Davis, Ben Nylander, Jordana Qi

-Or Gulliver’s Travels-part 2- A Voyage to Brobdingnag

Jonathan Swift

• 1667-1745

• Assistant to Sir William Temple

• Gardener, priest, writer- A Tale of the Tub and The Battle of the Books

• Political writer- Tories

• 1726- Gulliver’s Travels

Satire

Satire vs. Parody:

Parody is an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Satire is the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues

A Voyage to Brobdingnag criticizes European religion and government

Chapter six attacks politics

“He said, he knew no Reason, why those who entertain Opinions prejudicial to the Publick, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them. And, as it was Tyranny in any Government to require the first, so it was Weakness not to enforce the second.” (Swift, 1735, p.92)

“He laughed at my odd Kind of Arithmetick” (Swift, 1735, p.92)

“I am well disposed to hope you may hitherto have escaped many Vices of your Country.” (Swift,

1735, p. 93)

Chapter 1

• Home for two months, Gulliver is “restless” (Swift, 1726, p. 53)

• Unknowingly anchor on Brobdingnag, sailors search for inhabitants

“I observed a huge Creature walking after them” (p. 55)

• Farm hand begins to harvest the field of corn

• Gulliver meets the family

“The Company were the Farmer and wife, three children, and an old Grandmother” (p.58)

• Having an eventful dinner

Chapter 2

• Meeting Glumdalclitch

“My Mistress had a Daughter of nine Year old” (Swift, 1726, p.63)

• News spreads about Gulliver, becomes entertainment

“began to be known and talked of in the Neighborhood

• Visiting Lorbrulgrud

“Pride of the Universe” (p. 67)

• Becoming a Brobdingnagian

“I could now peak the Language tolerably well” (p. 67)

Chapter 3

• Gulliver is sold to the Queen

• Gulliver becomes popular at the palace

• The Queens dwarf plays tricks on Gulliver- bone, bowl of cream

• Significance of the Brobdingnagians

• Gulliver’s sense of self-importance is diminished

• “I really began to imagine my self dwindled many Degrees below my usual Size.” (p. 73)

• Giants are amused at the silly idea of human arrogance

• the king “observed how contemptible a Thing was human Grandeur, which could be mimicked in such diminutive insects as I” (p. 72)

Chapter 4

• King and Queen bring Gulliver traveling throughout Brobdingnag• The size of the kingdom emphasizes Gulliver’s proportion

• Gulliver meets the beggars and is disgusted by their foul condition up close

• “…although indeed the Sight was so nauseous, that it perfectly turned my Stomach.” (p. 77)

Chapter 5

“I should have lived happy enough in that Country, if my Littleness had not exposed me to several ridiculous and troublesome Accidents” (Swift, 1735, p. 79)

• Gulliver is content living in Brobdingnag; the only disadvantage is his size

“There suddenly fell such a violent Shower of Hail… the Hail-stones gave me such cruel Bangs all of the Body” (Swift, 1735, p.79)

• The people of Brobdingnag see Gulliver as a novelty with no significance

• Gulliver has the opportunity to scrutinze the physical aspect of humans while in Brobdingnag

“But, I conceive, that my Sense was more acute in Proportion to my Littleness” (Swift, 1735, p.81)

“... far from being a tempting Sight, or from giving me any other Motions than those of Horror and

Disgust” (Swift, 1735, p. 82)

Chapter 6

● Gulliver attempts to educate the King about England “ He desired I would give him as exact an Account of the Government of

England as I possibly could” (Swift, 1735, p. 89)

• Gulliver discusses geography, Parliament, Courts of Justice, and various aspects of culture

“ his Majesty in a sixth Audience consulting his Notes, proposed many Doubts, Queries, and Objections, upon every Article” (Swift, 1735, p. 90)

• The King concludes the description of England is ridiculous “I cannot but conclude the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious

Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth”

Chapter 7

• Large differences between Brobdingnag and England

• Criticism of English government

• Society values agriculture, survival, and peace

• Most new technology is dedicated to agricultural improvement

Chapter 8

• Picked up by an eagle while in his box

• Alarmed by meeting normal-sized people again

• Travels against wife's wishes

• Can be compared to “Huck Finn”, although written much later

References

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References

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• "Jonathan Swift Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. <http://www.biography.com/people/jonathan-swift-9500342#later-years&awesm=~oBels4KWmayVz7>.

• Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. Mineola: Dover Thrift Editions, 1996. Print.

• "Writers.com Tips: Capitalization." Writers.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Apr. 2014. <http://www.writers.com/tips_capitalization.html>.