In the first chapter of "Gulliver's Travels" I read how Gulliver came to be what he was. When he got out of the ship Antelope, I could tell that Swift used a lot of satire because he described the people as being six inches tall. This is impossible being that people can't be so tiny. I could see a lot of exaggeration throughout the chapter being that that's what satire is all about. In this chapter I could also see the difference between reality and imagination because clearly there isn't a place where tiny people six inches tall live and have the ability to drag a very tall human to their home.
The excerpt from "Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput" from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents a confused protagonist who wakes to find himself in a city of tiny human beings. As a prisoner of the citizens of this foreign land, Lemuel Gulliver shows he is very innocent. He is a giant compared to the others he encountered yet he fails in his attempts to escape and simply accepts the orders of the miniature king. He is immediately impressed by the culture of the inhabitants of this land and pays much attention to their customs. Toward the end, he was given his liberty, but leaves the reader without a reason to why he stayed. When Reldresal, the Principal Secretary, approached him with a request for help to protect the land, Gulliver agrees to defend them and put his life on the line. I was impressed by his willingness to accept this request after he was held prisoner.
Some clarification would be nice. The period 6 assignment says to WRITE a response to Gulliver’s travels, where as the period 7 assignment says to POST a response. Basically I’m thinking this means that period 6 needs to physically write down their response and bring it to class, and period 7 has to post a comment on the blog.
Gulliver's Travels is clearly a satire piece. Swift clearly demonstrates his disgust and resentment that he has toward the English society of his time. Part one presents Gulliver who awakens tied down and surrounded by little people called the Lilliput. The Lilliliput represent the vain high society of England. Towards the end of the piece [Part One] Swift mocks English society and how they divide themselves. Swift mocks the divison and fights that occur between two political parties that are hardly different from each other. Swift also mocks wars and the reasons that wars occur under. Really the manner an egg is broken caused a war? Here Swift belittles the causes of war and reduces to them to how an egg is broken. Finally towards the end of Part One Swift criticizes religion not so much religion but religious and the ridiculous laws they place on people.”... accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great Prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).” Overall I thought the piece was biting and effectively used satire to prove a point.
When Gulliver washes ashore in Lilliput, he is awakened by miniature “human creatures not six inches high” that have bounded him to the ground. At first apprehensive and willing to fight the creatures, Gulliver is placated by offers of food and drink. He quickly acclimates to the language and culture of the creatures, and becomes a part of society. By the end of the story, he is even willing to defend the kingdom from dangerous invaders. The humor and exaggeration of this occurrence add to the satirical elements used in Part One: A Voyage to Lilliput in “Gulliver’s Travels.” Swift uses this satire to expose corruption in England by mocking politicians and the court by making them ridiculously trivial in scale.
Gulliver was awoken from an intense sleep by tiny people aka the Lilliput that had tied him down. The Lilliput attacked him with arrows and spears while he attempted to free himself. Eventually they realized he wasn't a threat and apologized to him by providing him with food and a beverage that was just like burgundy wine, but better. To celebrate their friendship the Lilliput danced on his chest. Gulliver saw it as an opportunity to take down about 40-50 of them but he remembered the pain he went through when they didn't trust him. Overtime Gulliver and the Lilliput formed a relationship. Towards the end Gulliver is granted his request for liberty and make a promise to protect them.
In the first part of Guilliver's Travel it talks about how Guilliver himself is laying down on the short soft grass. The satire comes into place when some creatures about six inches tall, come and attack Guilliver. At first they couldn't tie him down but after getting the bow and arrow and striking him with it they were able to get him down. I think it was so funny how it took about forty small people to get a giant down. Also when Guilliver decided to stay put and not try to escape and listen to these creatures was a good idea. I probably would have done the same thing as him: following directions. In this part of the chapter we see "the pretentious English politicians and court are made ridiculous by being reduced in scale."
In Part 1 of Gulliver’s Travels “A Voyage to Lilliput”, Swift uses satire to mock English politicians, and their society. As the piece opens, the main character, Lemuel Gulliver is waking up tied down and unaware of his surroundings. He then comes into contact with “human creatures not six inches high,” which begin to speak to him in an unfamiliar language. Gulliver still in a confused state tries to extricate himself from his binds, causing the creatures to attack him with a volley of arrows. Gulliver then calms himself and allows the creatures to provide him with food and drink. Gulliver then accepts the fact that he will be their prisoner, and overtime he earns his freedom. As a free man Gulliver remains on Lilliput and is soon told of the war between the rival powers over how to correctly cut an egg. After hearing this Gulliver accepts the responsibility of protecting the land of Lilliput. This piece is satire because of how Swift compares the little creatures to English politicians in order to be little them, as well as show the separation between them and the rest of the population, Swift also compares the petty reason for a war, to how English society functioned during the time.
"A Voyage to Lilliput," Part 1 of Gulliver's Travels is a very interesting satire by Jonathan Swift. Swift uses Gulliver and portrays him as a freakish giant compared to the Lilliput people. Gulliver sees the Lilliput people as what they are: small miniature creatures or human beings. But, the Lilliput believe they are powerful and mighty. They believe that they are the normal people and that Gulliver is the “extra-terrestrial,” when it’s the other way around. The Lilliput like to be in charge and intimidate people, because when Gulliver says he wants to be free they say he has to be a prisoner. Gulliver could have squished them all and have killed them. But, he didn’t because they were taking good care of him. The most ridiculous part and my favorite part of the satire, is when Reldresal the principal Secretary of Private Affairs tells Gulliver about the war about the eggs. I find it absurd that the Lilliput and the Blefuscu have been fighting for years because the primitive way of breaking eggs was changed. Swift has fun with this part of the piece because he exaggerates to the point of absurdity. He says emperors have lost their lives and their crowns because of this issue. He claims that eleven thousand people have preferred to die than to change their custom. It is hilarious because of how ridiculous it is. -Ambar Sabino
In Part 1 of “Gulliver’s Travels: A voyage to Lilliput,” Gulliver is awakened in an unknown land where his body, arms and hair are tied down by rope. After the blazing sun gives Gulliver a small frame of time to be able to see again, he looks the lowest he can and soon notices 40-plus little “creatures” that “were not six inches high” armed with bows and arrows that surrounded his body. Gulliver was successful at freeing one side of his body, but was quickly attacked with an onslaught of hundreds of miniature arrows. At first violent and hesitant towards the citizens of Lilliput—as it turns out the town was called—he is soon bribed with meats and wines to satisfy this growing hunger. not before long, Gulliver realizes that he is a prisoner in that town and just accepts the fact. Over time, he is given responsibility and is given freedom—within the town. He is promptly made into a useful member to the Town of Lilliput: he is their source of protection from assailants or any other type of danger. After this, Gulliver is told that he will go to the capital where he will be left leg would be padlocked. He is brought into the capital on a cart an inch and a half off the ground with 22 wheels and 900 of Lilliput’s strongest men. The satirical element in this chapter of the story was the mocking of English politicians. Swift does this in order to show how much the English politicians stick out in their society and to show how much corruption there is. -Miguel
Gulliver's Travels is clearly a satire piece. Swift clearly demonstrates his disgust and resentment that he has toward the English society of his time. Part one presents Gulliver who awakens tied down and surrounded by little people called the Lilliput. The Lilliliput represent the vain high society of England. Towards the end of the piece [Part One] Swift mocks English society and how they divide themselves. “…that for seventy moons past there have been struggling parties in this empire, under the names Tramecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.” (page 658) Here Swift mocks the divison and fights that occur between two political parties that are hardly different from each other. “. Whereupon the Emperor, his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people so highly resented this law that, our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown. “ Again. Swift mocks wars and the reasons that wars occur under. Really the manner an egg is brokencaused a war? Here Swift belittles the causes of war and reduces to them to how an egg is broken. Finally towards the end of Part One Swift critiices religion not so much religion but religious and the ridiculous laws they place on people.”... accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great Prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).” Overall I thought the piece was biting and effectively used satire to prove a point
Gulliver's Travels begins after the ship wreck and how he ends up Lilliput and goes into a deep sleep. This story is clearly a satirical piece written by Swift. It begins after the ship wreck and when he wakes he is bounded and their is a six inch person is crawling on him, and about 40 people of the same kind and they spoke in a different language than what he was used to. He then tried to release himself from the strains that had bound him ,but as he did so the six inch people were throwing arrows at him. Also they feel as if they were normal and Gulliver was an intruder in their land like what ever seems suprenatural to us like aliens, ghosta etc... In the story Swift exposes the corruption in the English institutions and the english men are ridiculed by being seen smaller that usual.
Gulliver's Travels is about the main character who is Lemuel Gulliver. Lemuel learns that he is interested in traveling and he boards a ship. The story is extremely sattirical based and spoken in the first person, like Mrs. Breen said most sattires would be. I thought the story was kind of funny. The symbols used and ideas used by Jonathan Swift to exaggerate were funny, but extremely exaggerated!
This story is about how this guy is on a boat traveling in the south pacific ocean which later is shipwrecked. he swims to the shore and sleeps. When he wakes he is tied and is wondering what is happening and notices he is a prisoner. the guy is like 40 times bigger then everyone else and is a specticule or some sort of a great thing. people feed him loads of food and drink they dress him nice and people all around like him being around. the people gain some respect and take care of him and he does the same. his invited to see events and during the events he learns that things arent what they seem and that these people live in fear so he kind of steps up to the plate and protects them a little. i dont really understand much of the end beacause idk it became a little fuzzy for me and sorry for posting this so late i didnt know this was up cause shame in me i didnt sign up.
In the first chapter of "Gulliver's Travels" I read how Gulliver came to be what he was. When he got out of the ship Antelope, I could tell that Swift used a lot of satire because he described the people as being six inches tall. This is impossible being that people can't be so tiny. I could see a lot of exaggeration throughout the chapter being that that's what satire is all about. In this chapter I could also see the difference between reality and imagination because clearly there isn't a place where tiny people six inches tall live and have the ability to drag a very tall human to their home.
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ReplyDeleteThe excerpt from "Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput" from Jonathan Swift's
ReplyDelete"Gulliver's Travels" presents a confused protagonist who wakes to
find himself in a city of tiny human beings. As a prisoner of the
citizens of this foreign land, Lemuel Gulliver shows he is very
innocent. He is a giant compared to the others he encountered yet he
fails in his attempts to escape and simply accepts the orders of the
miniature king. He is immediately impressed by the culture of the
inhabitants of this land and pays much attention to their customs.
Toward the end, he was given his liberty, but leaves the reader
without a reason to why he stayed. When Reldresal, the Principal
Secretary, approached him with a request for help to protect the land,
Gulliver agrees to defend them and put his life on the line. I was
impressed by his willingness to accept this request after he was held
prisoner.
Some clarification would be nice.
ReplyDeleteThe period 6 assignment says to WRITE a response to Gulliver’s travels, where as the period 7 assignment says to POST a response.
Basically I’m thinking this means that period 6 needs to physically write down their response and bring it to class, and period 7 has to post a comment on the blog.
Gulliver's Travels is clearly a satire piece. Swift clearly demonstrates his disgust and resentment that he has toward the English society of his time. Part one presents Gulliver who awakens tied down and surrounded by little people called the Lilliput. The Lilliliput represent the vain high society of England. Towards the end of the piece [Part One] Swift mocks English society and how they divide themselves.
ReplyDeleteSwift mocks the divison and fights that occur between two political parties that are hardly different from each other. Swift also mocks wars and the reasons that wars occur under. Really the manner an egg is broken caused a war? Here Swift belittles the causes of war and reduces to them to how an egg is broken.
Finally towards the end of Part One Swift criticizes religion not so much religion but religious and the ridiculous laws they place on people.”... accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great Prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).”
Overall I thought the piece was biting and effectively used satire to prove a point.
When Gulliver washes ashore in Lilliput, he is awakened by miniature “human creatures not six inches high” that have bounded him to the ground. At first apprehensive and willing to fight the creatures, Gulliver is placated by offers of food and drink. He quickly acclimates to the language and culture of the creatures, and becomes a part of society. By the end of the story, he is even willing to defend the kingdom from dangerous invaders. The humor and exaggeration of this occurrence add to the satirical elements used in Part One: A Voyage to Lilliput in “Gulliver’s Travels.” Swift uses this satire to expose corruption in England by mocking politicians and the court by making them ridiculously trivial in scale.
ReplyDeleteGulliver was awoken from an intense sleep by tiny people aka the Lilliput that had tied him down. The Lilliput attacked him with arrows and spears while he attempted to free himself. Eventually they realized he wasn't a threat and apologized to him by providing him with food and a beverage that was just like burgundy wine, but better. To celebrate their friendship the Lilliput danced on his chest. Gulliver saw it as an opportunity to take down about 40-50 of them but he remembered the pain he went through when they didn't trust him. Overtime Gulliver and the Lilliput formed a relationship. Towards the end Gulliver is granted his request for liberty and make a promise to protect them.
ReplyDeleteIn the first part of Guilliver's Travel it talks about how Guilliver himself is laying down on the short soft grass. The satire comes into place when some creatures about six inches tall, come and attack Guilliver. At first they couldn't tie him down but after getting the bow and arrow and striking him with it they were able to get him down. I think it was so funny how it took about forty small people to get a giant down. Also when Guilliver decided to stay put and not try to escape and listen to these creatures was a good idea. I probably would have done the same thing as him: following directions. In this part of the chapter we see "the pretentious English politicians and court are made ridiculous by being reduced in scale."
ReplyDeleteIn Part 1 of Gulliver’s Travels “A Voyage to Lilliput”, Swift uses satire to mock English politicians, and their society. As the piece opens, the main character, Lemuel Gulliver is waking up tied down and unaware of his surroundings. He then comes into contact with “human creatures not six inches high,” which begin to speak to him in an unfamiliar language. Gulliver still in a confused state tries to extricate himself from his binds, causing the creatures to attack him with a volley of arrows. Gulliver then calms himself and allows the creatures to provide him with food and drink. Gulliver then accepts the fact that he will be their prisoner, and overtime he earns his freedom. As a free man Gulliver remains on Lilliput and is soon told of the war between the rival powers over how to correctly cut an egg. After hearing this Gulliver accepts the responsibility of protecting the land of Lilliput. This piece is satire because of how Swift compares the little creatures to English politicians in order to be little them, as well as show the separation between them and the rest of the population, Swift also compares the petty reason for a war, to how English society functioned during the time.
ReplyDelete"A Voyage to Lilliput," Part 1 of Gulliver's Travels is a very interesting satire by Jonathan Swift. Swift uses Gulliver and portrays him as a freakish giant compared to the Lilliput people. Gulliver sees the Lilliput people as what they are: small miniature creatures or human beings. But, the Lilliput believe they are powerful and mighty. They believe that they are the normal people and that Gulliver is the “extra-terrestrial,” when it’s the other way around. The Lilliput like to be in charge and intimidate people, because when Gulliver says he wants to be free they say he has to be a prisoner. Gulliver could have squished them all and have killed them. But, he didn’t because they were taking good care of him.
ReplyDeleteThe most ridiculous part and my favorite part of the satire, is when Reldresal the principal Secretary of Private Affairs tells Gulliver about the war about the eggs. I find it absurd that the Lilliput and the Blefuscu have been fighting for years because the primitive way of breaking eggs was changed. Swift has fun with this part of the piece because he exaggerates to the point of absurdity. He says emperors have lost their lives and their crowns because of this issue. He claims that eleven thousand people have preferred to die than to change their custom. It is hilarious because of how ridiculous it is.
-Ambar Sabino
In Part 1 of “Gulliver’s Travels: A voyage to Lilliput,” Gulliver is awakened in an unknown land where his body, arms and hair are tied down by rope. After the blazing sun gives Gulliver a small frame of time to be able to see again, he looks the lowest he can and soon notices 40-plus little “creatures” that “were not six inches high” armed with bows and arrows that surrounded his body. Gulliver was successful at freeing one side of his body, but was quickly attacked with an onslaught of hundreds of miniature arrows. At first violent and hesitant towards the citizens of Lilliput—as it turns out the town was called—he is soon bribed with meats and wines to satisfy this growing hunger. not before long, Gulliver realizes that he is a prisoner in that town and just accepts the fact. Over time, he is given responsibility and is given freedom—within the town. He is promptly made into a useful member to the Town of Lilliput: he is their source of protection from assailants or any other type of danger. After this, Gulliver is told that he will go to the capital where he will be left leg would be padlocked. He is brought into the capital on a cart an inch and a half off the ground with 22 wheels and 900 of Lilliput’s strongest men. The satirical element in this chapter of the story was the mocking of English politicians. Swift does this in order to show how much the English politicians stick out in their society and to show how much corruption there is.
ReplyDelete-Miguel
Gulliver's Travels is clearly a satire piece. Swift clearly demonstrates his disgust and resentment that he has toward the English society of his time. Part one presents Gulliver who awakens tied down and surrounded by little people called the Lilliput. The Lilliliput represent the vain high society of England. Towards the end of the piece [Part One] Swift mocks English society and how they divide themselves.
ReplyDelete“…that for seventy moons past there have been struggling parties in this empire, under the names Tramecksan and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.” (page 658) Here Swift mocks the divison and fights that occur between two political parties that are hardly different from each other.
“. Whereupon the Emperor, his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs. The people so highly resented this law that, our histories tell us, there have been six rebellions raised on that account; wherein one emperor lost his life, and another his crown. “
Again. Swift mocks wars and the reasons that wars occur under. Really the manner an egg is brokencaused a war? Here Swift belittles the causes of war and reduces to them to how an egg is broken.
Finally towards the end of Part One Swift critiices religion not so much religion but religious and the ridiculous laws they place on people.”... accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great Prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).”
Overall I thought the piece was biting and effectively used satire to prove a point
Gulliver's Travels begins after the ship wreck and how he ends up Lilliput and goes into a deep sleep. This story is clearly a satirical piece written by Swift. It begins after the ship wreck and when he wakes he is bounded and their is a six inch person is crawling on him, and about 40 people of the same kind and they spoke in a different language than what he was used to. He then tried to release himself from the strains that had bound him ,but as he did so the six inch people were throwing arrows at him. Also they feel as if they were normal and Gulliver was an intruder in their land like what ever seems suprenatural to us like aliens, ghosta etc... In the story Swift exposes the corruption in the English institutions and the english men are ridiculed by being seen smaller that usual.
ReplyDeleteGulliver's Travels is about the main character who is Lemuel Gulliver. Lemuel learns that he is interested in traveling and he boards a ship. The story is extremely sattirical based and spoken in the first person, like Mrs. Breen said most sattires would be. I thought the story was kind of funny. The symbols used and ideas used by Jonathan Swift to exaggerate were funny, but extremely exaggerated!
ReplyDeleteThis story is about how this guy is on a boat traveling in the south pacific ocean which later is shipwrecked. he swims to the shore and sleeps. When he wakes he is tied and is wondering what is happening and notices he is a prisoner. the guy is like 40 times bigger then everyone else and is a specticule or some sort of a great thing. people feed him loads of food and drink they dress him nice and people all around like him being around. the people gain some respect and take care of him and he does the same. his invited to see events and during the events he learns that things arent what they seem and that these people live in fear so he kind of steps up to the plate and protects them a little. i dont really understand much of the end beacause idk it became a little fuzzy for me and sorry for posting this so late i didnt know this was up cause shame in me i didnt sign up.
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