Gulliver's travels by https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7 en-us 2018-05-25 14:53:27 UTC 2026-01-21 11:14:14 UTC hello@padlet.com The story gabrielecardinale30 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/263672868 In Book 1 Gulliver sails from Bristol, and after six months, is shipwrecked in the South Pacific. He is on the shore of "Lilliput", whose inhabitants, the Lilliputiants, are six inches tall.Then he returns to England.

In Book 2 Gulliver sails for India, but he finds himself in Alaska. Here the natives are giants twelve times as tall as Gulliver and he becomes the king's pet. One day Gulliver's cage is lifted up by a bird and dropped in the middle of the Ocean. He is rescued by a ship and he returns to England.

In Book 3 Gulliver's ship is attacked by pirates. He finds himself on Island of "La Puta", whose inhabitats are astronomers, philosophers and scientists. He returns to England.

In Book 4 Gullivers' last voyage leads him to the island inhabited by the "Houyhnhnms", rational horses that rule over the "Yahoos", a vile species of animal resembling human beings. When the horses banish him, he builds a canoe and leaves for England but he cannot stand human smell and he goes to live in the stable.]]> 2018-05-25 15:44:26 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/263672868 Stylistic features gabrielecardinale30 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264555590 Gulliver's Travels has for a long time been considered a children's classic because wonderfully imagination and the semplicity of the prose.
Gulliver, like Crusoe, is a  men who records the marvels he sees with careful detail, in the language of the traveller who speaks with great seriousness about what he has seen and wants to be believed.
Critics have debated about Swit's Novel. Many have considered it as a misanthropic book, a vicious attack on the human race. The book's defenders, on the other hand, say that the book is a satire of man's hypocrisy, vanity and cruelty, his small-mindedness and absurd pretensions.
When Gulliver's travels was published anonymously in 1726, it was instantly successful. One report said that ten thousand copies were sold in three weeks.]]> 2018-05-30 15:08:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264555590 Jonhatan Swift's Computing Invention gabrielecardinale30 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264564629  In 1726 Jonathan Swift published a description of a wonderful machine, made of equal parts of irony, sarcasm, and mockery, that would automatically write books on all the arts and sciences without the least assistance from genius or study. During his third voyage Gulliver discovered the continent of Balnibarbi, which was subject to the monarch of the Flying Island, the island of Laputa. In contrast to modern computers, the machine is easily understood both in construction and operation and it can be considered an early attempt at artificial intelligence.]]> 2018-05-30 15:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264564629 Through the eyes of Gulliver aryanna_2000 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264802578 Swift’s Gulliver Travel is told through the eyes of Gulliver. Gulliver is an apparently reliable narrator and represents the prototype of the English middle-class man. Like Defoe’s Crusoe, also Swift’s Gulliver uses the first person point of view estabilish a direct relationship with the reader. Also, states that everything he has written is true and his travel descriptions are intended to teach wretched humans the lessons he has learnt from noble beings in other lands. ]]> 2018-05-31 14:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264802578 A variety of meanings federicabevilacqua09 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264857801 Swift's novel is one of the most controversial literaly works of english literature. Critics have pointed that Gulliver's Travels can be read as:
  • A book for children,telling the adventures of a man who travels across the world and encounters incredible creatures and strange people
  • A philosophical tale,reproducing the author's reflections
  • A satire of Western-centrism and of its religious,culture and social truths 
  • A universal warning against the dangers of religious fundamentalism and scientific speculations 
All of these interpretations are possible and accettable and show the extraordinary modernity
]]> 2018-05-31 17:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264857801 Inside the aspect of the novel. corradorestivo99 https://padlet.com/gabrielecardinale30/qc1xdc21ssu7/wish/264885601 Gulliver's travels is a novel organized in a very simple structure, which is repeated four times, one for each trip. In all of the four parts we observe the entry of the protagonist in a fantastic society and in an unknown world, followed by a description of the attempts  of adaptation to the new environment, and by a heavy criticism to the institutions, and to the customs of the real world.

 -Swift seems to be very clear. All of this is explained by the different structure of these societies: the Lillipuzians, however generous, have a warlike nature and are deeply divided by prejudices. The giants Brobdingnag: life with them is obviously impossible for Gulliver, because they highlight all human faults (even those of a physical nature), treating the protagonist as a toy or a pet. Even the resources of the intellect are ridiculed, and this through the representation of the city of Laputa: not only the studies conducted here are completely senseless, but the scientists who live here also oppress other populations living on land. But the most interesting episode is that one of the Houyhnhnms, because their community is certainly one in which Gulliver fits better and is the only one he would like to stay. However, these horses do not have a precise individual identity, but they tend to identify themselves in the group, and they exclude Gulliver because they are "different" and "different" from them, just as they do with Yahoo.

 

The search for a utopian world to oppose the vices and defects of Europe is therefore a failure on the whole line, because the corrosive satire of the author does not spare anything or anyone: the more defects and hypocrisies of men emerge comparison; furthermore it is understood that even the fantastic kingdoms visited by Gulliver are not at all paradises on Earth.

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