The document summarizes a paper titled "The Representation of women in the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift". It discusses how women are portrayed in the different parts of the novel, with quotes highlighting their constrained roles and learning. It also compares and contrasts the representation of women in the first and last parts of the novel, and concludes with Gulliver's reaction upon returning home.

1. Paper :- The Neo-Classical Literature
Topic :- The Representation of
women in the novel ‘Gulliver’s
Travels’ by Jonathan Swift
Name :- Nargis I. Saiyad
Class :- M.A. II (Sem. III)
Roll no. :-14
Batch :- 2012- ‘13

2. # ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ as a misogynist
work
# A voyage to Lilliput
‘…a smaller compass
of learning was enjoined
them: for their maxim is, that
among peoples of quality,
a wife should be always a
reasonable and agreeable
companion, because she
cannot always be young.’
(1.6.15)

3. # A voyage to Brobdingnag

4. # A voyage to Laputa
‘…and are allowed to do whatever they
please, they long to see the world, and
take the diversions of the
metropolis, which they are not allowed to
do without a particular license from the
king’
‘…how hard it is to persuade
their women to return from
below.’ (3.2.16)

5. # A voyage to the land of Houyhnhnms
‘Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and
comeliness in the female;
not upon the account of
love, but to preserve the
race from degenerating;..’
(4.8.12)

6. # Comparison and contrast of the first
and the last part
# Gulliver’s return to home
‘…having not been used to the
touch of that odious animal
for so many years, I fell into
a swoon for almost an hour’.
# Conclusion