Analysis of Gulliver’s Travels
Described how John Milton, through his travel literature novel;
Gulliver’s Travel’s, allow for a refreshing perspective of norms, treatment and
civilization practiced when encountering foreign cultures? Who is his intended
audience?
Jonathan Swift, in a very
interesting fashion, though Gulliver’s Travel’s shows how we as
people can be toward another human or even species when encountering them for
the first time. During upheaval times of Christianity and religion in England,
Swift was known to antagonize the political parties through his satirist work,
however Swift’s radix was not just to antagonize, but to question the nobility of Church's and put acts of
immorality and or corruption of England on the spot light through his satire's.
A great
example is when swift writes of the Lillputian’s and how they treat people if
dishonest characters. While first comparing the culture that he states is ‘not
to different then the woman of England”(2517). His demeanor and description of
the Lilliputans is interesting because he allows for you to connect to them and
later writes “They look upon fraud as a greater crime then theft, and therefor
seldom fail to punish it with death”(2517). It was interesting to see how he
portrays them to be very interestingly different however not too different then
those of England.
Also interestingly enough they appear to be more moral then
any others due to the punishment of death for fraud, for they believed that no
unlawful characters will subdue to an honest one, and therefor they must kill
them.
Though nobody knew who wrote
Gulliver’s Travel’s because John Swift published first anonymously then with
pseudo name, it became an uproar and was considered blasphemy to the church
since it in fact ridiculed the customs the church had during times of
expansion. Churches we known to execute people of different beliefs, cultures
and countries were exiled or enslaved, and Swifts intent was to shame it and
reveal the unjustness of the church.