gulliver's travel as a political allegory

1. PAPER-2
 Name: Sagar B Vaghela
 Roll No: 53
 Enrollment No: 2069108420180052
 Paper No: 2 The Neo-Classical Literature
 Topic: Gulliver’s Travel as a political allegory
 M. A. Sem-1
 Batch: 2017-19
 Email Id: sagarvaghela2020@gmail.com
 Submitted to: S. B. Gardi Department of English
MKBU

2. INTRODUCTION
 Jonathan Swift was born in
17th century and he
contributed to the 18th
century prose by writing
essays.
 Satire is the powerful
weapon of Swift and he
attacks the social institution
of his times directly in his
work.
 One of Jonathan Swift’s
most noted work’s is
Gulliver’s Travels.
 Gulliver’s Travels is in fact
the only work by Swift know
to nearly all English
readers.

3. WHAT IS AN ALLEGORY
 An allegory is a literary genre which is structured in
such a way that its meaning could be read on two
levels, and a secondary and more complex level.
 An allegory defend as a narrative in which the
character, plot, setting and occasion, while making
sense in themselves also signify a second layer of
meaning were they point at another set of people,
events and setting either from the writer’s mass or
resent historical event.
 It is a figurative mode of representation where ideas
are conveyed through symbolism and metaphor.

4. POLITICAL ALLEGORY IN LILIPUT
 One clear example of
Swift’s use of political
allegory is the rope
dancers, who are
Liliputians seeking
employment in the
government, all
candidates are asked to
dance on the rope and
whoever jumps the
highest without falling is
offered a high office.
 Very often the current
minister are asked to
dance to show there skill.

5. POLITICAL ALLEGORY IN BROBDINGNAG
 Within the voyage to
Brobdingnag, you will find
couple of particular
references to political
occasions from the
British existence.
 Your comments ought to
from the king of
Brobdingnag express the
political sights of Swift’s
party on the mercenary
millitry, around the British
economic climate as well
as on the nation’s debt.

6. POLITICAL ALLEGORY IN HOUYHNHNMS
 In voyage towards the country of
Houyhnhnms, allegorical
implication doesn’t only fit in with
the ecu nations but humanity
also.
 Gulliver has become inside a
country in which the horses are
possessed of reason and
therefore are the regulating
class, as the Yahoos, though
getting the form of people, are
brutal monsters, without reason
and without conscience.
 Gulliver, taking up a situation
backward and forward, part
animal, part reason, is Swift’s
allegorical picture from the dual
character of guy.

7. CONCLUSION
 Swift’s clarifies the objective of his allegory in
Gulliver’s Travels He says that through satire he
aims at correcting the vices of his society. He
intends to attack the evil of his society and thereby
to wake improvement. He hopes the betterment
social life of his time. Thus the category the
Gulliver’s Travels has basically a moral purpose.