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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1679 words (6.72 pages) in the essay titled Young Goodman Brown4 Gulliver s Travels - Gulliver s Crushed SpiritAlthough Gulliver s Travels by Jonathan Swift has long been thought of as a children s story, it is actually a dark satire on the fallacies of human nature. The four parts of the book are arranged in a planned sequence, to show Gulliver s optimism and lack of shame with the Lilliputians, decaying into his shame and disgust with humans when he is in the land of the Houyhnhmns. The Brobdingnagians are more hospitable than the Lilliputians, but Gulliver s attitude towards them is more disgusted and bitter. Gulliver s tone becomes even more critical of the introspective people of Laputa and Lagado, and in Glubbdubdrib he learns the truth about modern man. Gulliver finds the Luggnuggians to be a polite and generous people (III, 177), until he learns that the Struldbruggs immortality is a curse rather than a blessing. Throughout the course of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver’s encounters with each culture signify a progression from benevolence towards man to misanthropy, resulting in Gulliver s final insanity. In the first part of the book, Gulliver arrives on a strange island and wakes up tied to the ground by a culture of six-inch tall Lilliputians. Gulliver is amazed by the skill of the Lilliputians in handling him, but he is offended by their disrespect: “…in my Thoughts I could not sufficiently wonder at the Intrepidity of these diminutive Mortals, who durst venture to mount and walk on my Body, while one of my Hands was at Liber... |
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Keywords: travels gulliver, gullivers travels, misanthropy, lilliputians, inconvenience, introspective, diminutive, disgust, hospitable, laputa, shame, dark satire, jonathan swift, strange island, human nature, fallacies, benevolence, disrespect, mortals, immortality