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1. Hitesh Galthariya
Class :- M.A. SEM 1
Roll no :- 10
Topic :- Gulliver’s Travels :Comparison between I
& IV Voyages
Paper No :- 2
Enrollment No :- PG14101011
Year :- 2014-2015
Submitted :- S.B.Gardi English department
M.K. Bhavnagar University.
E-Mail :- hiteshgalthariya26@gmail.com

2. Gulliver's Travels
Introduction
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels is the most famous of all
the works of Swift. The germs of this book
has been traced to the celebrated
Scriblerus Club which came into existence
in the last months of Queen Anne’s reign,
when Swift joined with Arbuthnot, pope,
Gay, and a few other writers in a scheme
to ridicule all false tastes in learning. This
literary group was strongly Tory in
character and functioned as a kind of
counter balance to the whig circle which
had grown up about Addison and Steele.

3. Genre, Setting, and Mood
• Genre: Gulliver’s Travels is an obvious satire
piece.
• Setting: The setting of Gulliver’s Travels is mainly
in England, but also in the fictious countries of
Liliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of
the Houyhnhnms. in the past, during the 18th
Century.
• Mood: The mood is adventurous, emotionally
affecting, and also I think ignorant at the same
time.

4. Gulliver's Travels Four Voyages
A voyage to Lilliput A voyage to
Brobdingnag
A voyage to Laputa A voyage to the
country of
Houyhnhnms

5. Comparison between I & IV Voyages
• A voyage to Lilliput • A voyage to the country
of Houyhnhnms

6. A voyage to Lilliput
• The first part tells about his experience in Lilliput,
where the inhabitants are only six inches tall),
twelve times smaller than the normal human
beings. The emperor believed himself to be the
delight and terror of the universe, but it
appeared quite absurd to Gulliver who
was twelve times as tall as he. In his account of
the two parties in the country, distinguished by
the use of high and low heels, Swift satirizes the
Tories and the Whigs in England.
Religious disputes were laughed at in an account
of a problem which divided the Lilliputians: “
Should eggs be broken at the big end or the little
end?”

7. In the voyage to Lilliput, religious and
political divisions are humorously
burlesqued. The folly of political and
religious fanatics is exposed with reference
to the constant quarrels between the High-
Heels and the Low- Heels, and between the
Big-endians and the Little- endians, in which
the blood of thousands of people has been
shed. Besides reflections of a general
nature, the voyage to Lilliput contains
particular allusions to the royal court and
the politics of England.

8. A voyage to Houyhnhnms
• The last part is a most interesting account of his
discoveries in the Houyhnhnm land, where horses
are endowed with reason and all good and
admirable qualities, and are the governing class.
• Contrary to the Houyhnhnms, the Yahoos possess
every conceivable evil. They are malicious, spiteful,
envious, unclean and greedy. Gulliver admires the
life and ways of the horses, as much as he is
disgusted with the Yahoos, whose relations remind
him of those existing in English society to such a
degree that he shudders at the prospect of
returning to his native.

9. • This voyage exhibits mankind in a light
too degraded for contemplation, and the
satire is too exaggerated. However, if the
picture of the Yahoos is disgusting, that is
exactly what the author intended. But the
author has failed to make the portrayal of
the Houyhnhnms to be very attractive or
inviting as he aimed at doing. The
representation of the Houyhnhnms is
cold and insipid. These beings have their
virtues, but these virtues are all negative.
The Houyhnhnms are devoid of all those
tender passions and affections without
which life becomes a burden.