The same Gulliver, summary. "Gulliver's Travels" is waiting for the Master

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Dear reader! I invite you to take a break from the 18th century style of writing and follow me to focus on the main ideas of the great novel. After reading the article, you will understand how timely Jonathan Swift created Gulliver's Travels for England of the 18th century! The summary of the novel immerses us in the four journeys of the British Odysseus - Lemuel Gulliver, first a land surgeon, then a brave captain of the sailing ships of the Lady of the Seas.

Consider the first part of the novel, it is deeply public. Shipwrecked Gulliver becomes a prisoner of the Lilliputians. The author subtly ridicules the far-fetchedness of the conceptual inter-party contradictions of Lilliput: about the height of the heels, from which side to break the egg. The summary of the story "Gulliver's Travels" in an artistic form shows the futility of the two-party puppet confrontation of the bourgeois. The “humanity” of the democratic society of the country is described with ironyshorties. Having captured the enemy fleet with the help of the "Man-Mountain", the Lilliputians then decide to kill him. Moreover, the most humane of the dwarfs, Reldresel, the secretary for secret affairs, offers to "only" gouge out Gulliver's eyes so that his physical strength could continue to serve society. (Rejecting the bright colors of the story of a real master, for the first part of the novel we get just such a summary.) "Gulliver's Travels" denounces the principle of contemporary British society to Swift - "the state is above all." The writer takes off his masks, clearly demonstrates that this leads to cruelty, injustice in relation to the common man. The doctor of theology shows how a formless crowd of puny dwarfs, united by an inhuman state idea, turns into a monster. Lemuel, using a passing British sailboat, escapes from this state of little executioners.

In the second part of the novel, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdingnag, the country of the giants. It would seem that the situation has simply changed in a mirror way, and even a naive reader will be able to predict its summary for the second part of the novel. Gulliver's Travels, however, refutes this idea with its further plot. The talent of the great Irishman finds fresh colors for his palette here too. The writer shows how the bureaucratic huge state relates to the needs and needs of a simple person who is experiencing urgent needs. They look at him, they talk to him like a monkey, but all his aspirationsfaced with the "ingenuous naivete of misunderstanding" of the giants. (What magnificent words the writer has found!) A thoughtful reader understands that the "good face" of the giants is only evidence of a "bad game", i.e., the failure of the arrangement of the society of thick-skinned rulers. In real life, behind such a mask of those in power are greed, hypocrisy, ambition, envy, voluptuousness. The last words were not invented by the author of the article, they are from the review of Swift himself, who emphasized that the second part "plunged the king into utter amazement."

In the third part, Lamuel gets to the island that flies - Laputa. This is perhaps the most striking part of Jonathan Swift's novel. This is a brilliant foresight of the virtuality of the society of the future, immersed in "news and politics." Indeed, the characteristic features of the society of the 21st century stand out in the state arrangement of Laputa, it is easy to notice, even after briefly reading the summary. "Gulliver's Travels" upon a more detailed reading is striking in the description of the profession of people - "flappers" (in our understanding of advertising agents), who draw the attention of society to things put up for sale. There is another category of people on the island that you can easily recognize. These are projectors (we call such "creatives"). Having studied who knows where, they arrived and saw that somewhere on the island something is in order, it functions, they begin to change this “something”, optimize it, bringing it to the point of absurdity. How it is familiar to employees of modern corporations! How often do you want to drive awaysuch pests in three necks!

The fourth and final part of Gulliver's odyssey sends us to the land of noble horses, the Houyhnhnms, as they call themselves. They are served by humanoid creatures echo. Doesn't it seem to you, readers, that even this summary is an allegory? "Gulliver's Journey" in its fourth part is a call to people not to cripple themselves with civilization, to carefully preserve the best qualities given to man by nature: modesty, love, friendship, fidelity. It is indicative that Lemuel Gulliver himself, to whom the Houyhnhnms initially provided credit of trust by offering housing at home, does not pass the “examination of humanity”. He is expelled, having been qualified as an ehu by the court of horses.

Dean of Dublin Cathedral of St. Patrick, Dr. Jonathan Swift was not a rebel, but was a citizen with his big heart for the whole society. They say about such people that they are the conscience of the nation. Swift wrote his great book at the turn of the 17th century, breaking the boundaries of traditional, canonical literature. A fantasy novel, a travel novel, a pamphlet novel full of satire on existing foundations - it was a real "bomb", a sensation that had an impact on the entire English society of the 18th century. I would like to hope that the best film adaptation of "Gulliver" is in the future, that it is waiting for its Master, just as "Munchausen" waited for Oleg Yankovsky.