1. Paper Name: THE NEO-CLASSICAL LIRERATURE
Assignment Topic : psychological growth of Gulliver
Name: Solanki Pintu v
Sem : 1
Roll No : 35
Enrollment No: PG15101037
Email: solankipintu1991@gmail.com
Submitted to :
M.K. BHAVNAGARUNIVERSITY
Department Of English
2. JONATHAN SWIFT
Jonathan Swift(30 November 1667 – 19
October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist,
essayist, political pamphleteer(first for the
Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric
who became Dean of St Patrick's
Cathedral, Dublin.
Swift is remembered for works such as
Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A
Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The
Battle of the Books, An Argument Against
Abolishing Christianity and A Tale of a Tub.
He is regarded by the Encyclopedia
Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in
the English language,[1]and is less well
known for his poetry.
3. Introduction of novel
Gulliver travels
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In
Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver,
First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships,
commonly known as Gulliver's Travels(1726, amended
1735), is a prose satire by Anglo-Irish writer and
clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on
human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales"
literary subgenre.
It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of
English literature.
The book became popular as soon as it was published.
John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is
universally read, from the cabinet council to the
nursery."[3]Since then, it has never been out of print.
5. Psychological growth in Gulliver
The causes of Gulliver's misadventures become more
malignant as time goes on—he is first shipwrecked, then
abandoned, then attacked by strangers, then attacked by
his own crew.
Gulliver's attitude hardens as the book progresses—he is
genuinely surprised by the wildness and politicking of the
Lilliputians but finds the behavior of the Yahoos in the
fourth part reflective of the behavior of people.
6. Gulliver's viewpoint between parts is
mirrored by that of his antagonists in the
contrasting part
Gulliver sees the tiny Lilliputians as being
brutal and dishonest,
then the king of Brobdingnag sees
Europe in exactly the same light; Gulliver
sees the Laputians as unreasonable, and
his Houyhnhnm master sees humanity as
equally so.
7. Each part is the opposite of the previous part—
Gulliver is big/small/wise/ignorant, the countries
are complex/simple/scientific/natural, and the forms
of government are worse/better/worse/better than
England's.
government
worse better
countries
complex simple
Gulliver
Big small
8. voyages 3 and 4
Gulliver •wise
country •scientific
government •worse
Gulliver •ignorant
country •natural
government •better
9. No form of government is ideal—the simplistic
Brobdingnagians enjoy public executions and have streets
infested with beggars, the honest and upright Houyhnhnms
who have no word for lying are happy to suppress the true
nature of Gulliver as a Yahoo and are equally unconcerned
about his reaction to being expelled.
Specific individuals may be good even where the race is bad—
Gulliver finds a friend in each of his travels and, despite
Gulliver's rejection and horror toward all Yahoos, is treated
very well by the Portuguese captain, Don Pedro, who returns
him to England at the novel's end.
10. Of equal interest is the character
of Gulliver himself—he progresses
from a cheery idealist at the start of
the first part to the self-important
pessimist of the book's conclusion
we may well have to filter our
understanding of the work if we are
to believe the final misanthrope
wrote the whole work.
11. CONCIUSION:
In this sense Gulliver's Travels is a very
modern and complex novel.
There are subtle shifts throughout the
book, such as when Gulliver begins to see
all humans, not just those in Houyhnhnm-
land, as Yahoos.
Throughout, Gulliver is presented as being
gullible; he believes what he is told, never
perceives deeper meanings, is an honest
man, and expects others to be honest.