This document provides a summary of Jonathan Swift's novel "Gulliver's Travels" and analyzes what Swift was trying to explain by having the protagonist Gulliver visit four different societies. It notes that Gulliver belongs to a middle-class English family and his voyages include visiting the lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms. The document analyzes key differences and observations about each society, and concludes that through these four voyages, Swift highlighted differences in things like education, size, politics, and tendencies to satirize human folly and aspects of English society.

1. Name:- Rajdip Gohel
Roll No:- 36
Paper No:- 2-The Neo-Classical Literature
Submitted to:-
Smt.S.B Gardi Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2. About Jonathan Swift
• Jonathan swift (1667-1745)
•Jonathan swift famous for prose and
satirist.
•A tale of tub(tragedy)
•Gulliver's travels (satire)
•modest proposal(essay)

3.  Gulliver's travels, or travels into several remote nations
of the world.
Gulliver belongs to middle class family in England
 the novel divided into four voyages
• first is Lilliput
• second is Brobdingnag
• third is Laputa
• fourth is the country of Houynmnms

4. what does swift try to explain by
putting Gulliver in the four different
societies?

5.  The problem is Lilliputians are 6 inches and Gulliver is giant
 Lilliputians afraid from Gulliver because he is giants so he tries to
kill villagers this is the reason
 Gulliver's not understand Lilliputian language
 Why does he choose to stay?
 Reason is he is curious about Lilliputians culture, language, and
ways of living.
 Because he comes from England, that time England was the most
powerful nation in the world
 They live as a normal society there is a king in the village
 Swift indicate the power is a main things in Lilliput.
 He lives in Lilliput's 10 months

6.  He feels as a Lilliputians
 Size play a vital role to show desire of the people
 The most funniest elements in brobdingnag is Gulliver
treated as a doll and trouble by the court dwarf.
 Queen buy the Gulliver's from the farmer it shows that
money is important than man in brobdingnag?
 After that he treated with the full facilities in the palace.
 Gulliver and the king have long conversations about
politics.
 Gulliver's finds that each people prefers its own way.

7. One main difference between the people of Laputa and the people of
Balnibarbi is that those living in Laputa have very limited attention spans.
 People of Laputa are very intelligent
 Gulliver visits balnibarbi and he finds the people have suffered an even
worse destiny.
 Gulliver's meets a king who has his courtiers lick the floor as they
approach him crawling on their hands and knees. in this we find swift
commenting on the ridiculous rules of royals who abuse their power.

8.  After some days living with the Houynmnms
Gulliver has learned their language
 Gulliver explains about the English government
and political systems
 We can find that Gulliver change his manner in
every voyages

9. In the end we can find differences between
four societies. This difference are seen in their
education, size, political system and in their
tendencies

10. Thank You