Jonathan Swift - The Gulliver's Travels

      The Gulliver's Travels - Part 2

                         - Jonathan Swift

   The Emperor ordered his soldiers to search Gulliver for any dangerous thing on his person. Gulliver picked up the two royal soldiers and helped them climb on him for search. Lo! They found everything strange on him. His handkerchief was a great floor covering! His snuff box was a huge silver chest! They found the comb as big as railing in front of the royal palace! His watch could be lifted by two men on a pole on their shoulders to be shown around. The watch made a noise like a water-mill! They called Gulliver the Great Man Mountain.

The Gulliver's Travels

   Gulliver’s sword and pistol dangling from his belt attracted their attention. At the Emperor’s request, the pistol was fired. It terrorized the little men.  Both these weapons were taken away from him. Other possessions of Gulliver such as comb, knife, kerchief, notebook, snuff box were returned to him. His spectacles which were hidden inside his pocket remained with him. 

   By then, the little men from the land of Lilliput realized that he meant no harm to them. When he was resting, they would come and dance on his hand. Little boys and girls would come and play hide and seek in his hair without any fear.

   One day, the Emperor invited Gulliver to see his palace. When he reached the inner court, the Empress offered her hand to be kissed. Gulliver once again requested the Emperor to set him free. The Emperor asked Gulliver,  “To do his utmost to destroy the fleet of the Island of Blefuscu which is preparing to invade us.”

The Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

     Jonathan Swift 

   Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland in November 30, 1667. He was the second child and only son of his parents. Jonathan Swift’s father died in Dublin before he was born and his mother returned to England after her husband’s death. Jonathan Swift was left in the care of his influential uncle, Godwin.

   In February 1702, Jonathan Swift received his Doctor of Divinity degree from Trinity College, Dublin. Then he was starting his visit to England and other countries. He was spending his most of the time in England then. During his visits to England in these years, Jonathan Swift published A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (1704) and began to gain a reputation as a writer.

   The Gulliver’s Travels is regarded as his masterpiece. A large portion of this novel which Jonathan Swift wrote at Woodbrook House in County Laois and it was published in 1726. As with his other writings, the Travels were published under an anonym, the fictional Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon and later a sea captain. The base of this book is a great and sophisticated satire of human nature based on Jonathan Swift's experience of his times. The Gulliver's Travels is an anatomy of human nature, a bitter looking-glass, often criticized for its clear misanthropy.

   Each of the four books of this series, recounting four voyages to mostly-fictional isolate and exotic lands. These all books have a different theme, but all are attempts to let down the human pride. The critics were explained the work as a satiric reflection on the shortcomings of Enlightenment thought. He was died in October 19, 1745.

            The Gulliver's Travels - Part 1

                     - by Jonathan Swift

    
   Long ago, there was a landlord in England. He had son named Lemuel Gulliver. When Gulliver grew up he used to sail in the ship as a doctor. He earned enough for that job. Once again he set sail in a ship, named Antelop from the shores of Bristol. Bristol was a small port town in England that time. The ship was on a voyage to the East.