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TITLE : Gulliver’s Travels
BOOK REVIEW

TITLE: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

INTRODUCTION

This book title Gulliver’s Travels is fiction book. This book is story about Gulliver when he is
travelling around England. This book is created by Jonathan Swift and published by Didika
Sdn Bhd on 1996.

CONTENT

Lemuel Gulliver tells his story of wanderlust and the marvellous countries he visited
while travelling. His travels took place in the early 1700's when England was discovering and
claiming lands around the world. Yet Gulliver did not try to claim the lands he discovered for
Mother England.

Gulliver visits Lilliput, where the residents are only about six inches tall. His next
journey takes him to Brobdingnag, where the residents are about sixty feet tall. In each of
these places he is an oddity because of his size. His ship is overtaken by pirates on his next
trip and he is rescued by the people on Laputa, an island that floats in the air above the
world. On his last expedition he winds up shipwrecked in Houyhnhnm, a land where the
intelligent species looks like our horses. The abridged version of his travels are amazing to
anyone young or old.

The unabridged version of this story holds a lot of amusement for any politically
savvy adult. Gulliver comments on each country's government and how it is superior to the
English and European governments. He uses these countries to highlight all the problems
within his own country. His description of lawyers still fits to a tea even today. He satirizes
every level of government and human failings.

All too often I found myself tuning out as Gulliver continued to describe his
government to another country's leader. Of course that other leader could not understand
how anyone could live the way Gulliver depicted. Other times I would be laughing at how
well Swift would show ourselves to us. The research school is beyond imagination. I also
know why most dramatizations stop after Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Swift uses the last two
countries to poke most of his barbs. The travels drag in my opinion when he keeps going on
about the governments or actions of men. He uses satire like a stick to beat the reader over
the head.
 There were times I was sick of his (Gulliver's) self righteousness. He was always
unfailingly polite (except to a dwarf in the giant land) and would never presume. He would
listen to reason among all rulers of lands and try to explain his own countrymen logically.
Swift draws Gulliver as extremely proper. By the end of the book Gulliver has withdrawn
from society. Society hasn't lost anything by his isolation.

Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift's brilliant, satirical adventure, is a must-read. It is

an appealing novel containing both, whimsy and wit. Swift seamlessly blends fact with fiction
in this tale of an English ship surgeon. It pokes fun at the travelogues of this time period.

Lemuels Gulliver goes on four remarkable voyages across the globe and gets himself
in several different situations. Symbolism, humor, and intelligence fill all three-hundred and
eleven pages. The reader gets a good laugh all through the book at the expense of the main
character. Gulliver has no sense of humor and adapts to every single environment that he is
in. The book is well written masterpiece full of details. It is impossible to lose interest while
reading each eventful chapter. The reader can never really predict what is next for the
adventurous, gullible Gulliver.

Gulliver's travels is a novel that anyone who has an imagination would find
entertaining and appealing. On the other hand, some members of the book club will find this
book to ridiculous. This novel is not the typical satire, drama, comedy or adventure. Most
books that we book worms read are serious or sometimes dark but this novel is neither. It is
a fun read that doesn't take itself too seriously. Gulliver's Travel's Gets thumbs up from me
because of its depiction of human nature. It is one of those rare gems that can be enjoyed
by kids and adults for various different reasons.

The irrationality of human beings is a common motif in Jonathan Swifts, Gulliver's

Travels. The author never came out and said that but he hinted around that. The author
portrays human being as people who have two much pride to be considered rational.