issue of power politics in gulliver's travels
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Name : Pratiksha M. Solanki Roll No : 26 Sem :1 (2013-2015) Paper : The Neo-Classical Literature Subject : Issue oF Power Politics in Gulliver's Travels Submitted to :Smt. S.B. GardiDept. of EnglishM.K.Bhavnagar [email protected]
IntroductionThis novel is a Political Satire.. Which comments on the human
condition, the injustices of politics, and some surprisingly frank physical descriptions.
Gulliver’s Travels is not really a children’s book.
Published in four parts.Colonialism Term- In Gulliver's
Travels.Gulliver’s Travels is not really a
children’s book.
Issue oF Power Politics in Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver is a man trying to better his position in England through his voyages.Who holds power, why they hold it, and how they use or abuse it.
1st Voyage : Liliput
Gulliver meets on his first voyage. Lilliputians and Blefuscudians.
The Lilliptians, despite their small size, wield considerable power over Gulliver.
Lilliputians take advantage of him in Political intrigues of various sorts.
Lilliput is governed by a vain and despotic ruler who has his subjects tortured and executed for trivial matters.
2nd Voyage: Brobdingnag
Brobdingnagians are basically a reasonable and kindly people governed by a sense of justice.
The Brobdingnagians do not exploit him for personal or political reasons, as the Lilliputians do.
Although they treat the relatively tiny Gulliver as a plaything.
3rd Voyage: Laputa
The Laputan king assumes that he has a right to hold power and Maintain politics because he is more devoted to abstract and theoretical knowledge than others.
They do not mistreat Gulliver to show power, but are generally unpleasant and dismiss him as intellectually deficient.
In the larger context of Gulliver’s journeys, the Laputans are a parody of the excesses of theoretical pursuits and the uselessness of purely abstract knowledge.
4th Voyage: HouyhnhnmsYahoos : humanlike beasts who live in
servitude to the Houyhnhnms.No power No politics..Rational horses : who maintain a
simple, peaceful society governed by reason and truthfulness.
Houyhnhnms are like ordinary horses, except that they are highly intelligent and deeply wise
Houyhnhnms have the greatest impact on Gulliver throughout all his four voyages.
4th Voyage: Houyhnhnms
ConclusionGulliver does not approve of politicsGulliver remarks : The passion of
Laputians have for discussing politics is inversely related to how much they actual know about it – a common failing.
The Brobdingnagian King does. It's something else again to use politics and government as a way of getting jobs for your friends (the Lilliputian Emperor).
