1. Gulliver’s Four odd voyages and their
significance
Name : Neelamba R.Sarvaiya.
M.A. Sem-1
Roll no-24
Paper no-2 The neo-classical literature
S.B.Gardi English department
M.K. Bhavnagar University.
Year-2013-2014
Guided by : Heenaba Zala

3. Four voyages in the novel
The
voyage
of
Liliput
The
voyage of
the
country of
Houyhnhn
ms.

4. The voyage of Liliput:
This is also called
the Land of
pygims.
The book is Travel
is a topical political
satire.
The gulliver is huge
among the
laputian’s people
Gulliver coming
from England :
powerful reason.
Gulliver God like
the figure country.

5. The voyage of Brobdingnag

6. The voyage of Brobdingnag
• Gulliver is tiny people among the people of
their
• Farmer’s daughter cares him.
• Giant society is bigger than Gulliver’s society
• This book compares the truly moral man to
the representative man

7. The voyage of Laputa

8. The voyage of Laputa
• Attacked by the Pirates. Christian V/s Heathen
deformed human beings deformed Culture.
• The common problem Gulliver faces is of
Language.
• The floating island represents the distance
between the Government and the people.
• The society seems non human. The life here
seems Abstract & absurd.

9. A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms

10. A Voyage to the Country of the
Houyhnhnms
• Transformation in Gulliver.
• He quickly learns the Language of
Houyhnhnms.
• Here animals are national & cultured.
Yahoo
Human
beings
Hounyhnhnms
Animals

11. Gulliver thinks of his people as
European Yahoo and his prefers to live
with Barbarious with his own people.
Swift is challenging that traditioal
identity at human are national
animals.

12. Thank you.