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Themes in Gulliver's Travels

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This was my first time reading "Gulliver's Travels." After reading part 1 of this book I was quite confused on where Johnathon Swift was going with it. As I started to read all the parts I started to really enjoy this book and comprehend the different themes he illustrates through-out the book and the four parts written. It was very interesting to see all the different situations Gulliver was put in through out the parts. In part 1 Gulliver was a giant in Lilliput where he could defeat the Bleufuscudian Navy by his huge size. He was a huge threat to the people in Lilliput and had a lot of power. He then goes to Brobdingnag in Part 2 where now the complete opposite occurs and he is a tiny compared to all the people and things of Brobingnag. He now experiences life with not as much power. In part 3 Gulliver witnesses people with different interests and ways of living on Laputa. He does not find anything interesting about these people and wants to get out of here as soon as he can. Lastly in part 4 Gulliver finds the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos who he seems to love. The Houynhnms were horses who ruled and play the role of humans and the Yahoos were chained up by the Houynhnms and were looked like humans but not treated like them. The horses wanted to figure out what they were to do with them. Gulliver loved the Houynhnms and finally didn’t want to travel anymore and just stay with them but he was forced to leave because he could not stay with them. It was interesting to see how different all the areas Gulliver traveled to were. I think all the diverse cultures and places Gulliver travels to is Swift’s way of sending a major theme in the story. The theme is explaining to us how blind people were at this time. No one knew what was going on in different parts of the world except for where they were living. All they were worried about is their worlds and nowhere else. Swifts idea of making the different places Gulliver traveled to so ex

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