Gulliver is home for five months when he decides to set sail again. He leaves his pregnant wife and sets sail on the Adventure, the name of his ship. He captains this ship and along the way many of his shipmates get very ill and die so he recrutes more along the way. These new shipmates eventually turn into pirates and dumb Gulliver on to a very strange island and leave him there. Soon after Gulliver notices a very hair and very strange “animal”. He realizes he wants nothing to do with them and begins to set out for civilization. In the process of this he is attacked by a bunch of these animals ,but a very large horse rescues him. He is very intrigues by the horses and they began speaking to Gulliver. Gulliver asks them to take him to civilization and they do. The horses take him to their home and show him what life is like. The horses inform him that those animals are called “yahoos” and that they believe Gulliver is some type of yahoo. Over the course of two years Gulliver tries to convince them other wise. Gulliver begins to tell them all about the way England works and the people there. He tells them how horses are used and how the humans think and act. The horses feel that the humans in England and the Yahoos are very alike. Both are greedy and selfish. The horses eventually come to the conclusion that Gulliver is in fact a breed of yahoo and he is sent away off the island. Having lived there for so long Gulliver has no desire to live with humans again. He travels to another island where he discovers European Yahoos and decides he would rather live with humans over them. He then travels back to England, for the first year he can not stand to be around his wife and children. Therefore he buys two horses and converses with them everyday. Gulliver eventually learns to live with humans again,but nonetheless it was a struggle.

Swift comes into part 4 by using many different types of Satire One of the main ones being that Swift is using the Yahoos to describe humans, the filth, the greed, and the uncontrollable desire to mate. Yahoos are exactly like humans and Swift was trying to tell us that a being such as a horse, has more since in the world than most humans do. Also, he completely breaks down mankind as a whole a picks apart the rich, the governments and the systems of mankind to show their flaws.

Gulliver has been in England for only ten days when a visitor arrives at his home and asks him to sail on his ship with him to the East Indies in two months.Gulliver agrees and prepares to set sail. One they are on their way their ship gets attacked by pirates who put Gulliver out to sea in a  small boat with only food to last four days , so he would slowly starve. Gulliver floats into an island. He then looks up and sees a floating island. He soon realizes that the people here are very different. They have abstract faces and weird clothing. This island is known as Laputa , it is controlled by a magnet in the center ,which allows the king to be able to take away from the island that it hovers over . Gulliver doesn’t know the language of the people there ,but he soon learns how to speak a few sentences. They began travelling over many islands and the King shows Gulliver all that the island is about. Gulliver realizes that they use a lot of musical and scientific theories and they are so focused on them that Gulliver feels left out and Gulliver then gets the urge and desire to go back home to England. He the travels to the academy where there is a lot of very nonuseful science going on and Gulliver soon realizes that this isn’t for him. He then travels to the land of the Magicians and speaks to any of the dead scientists. He then travels to Luggnagg. From Luggnagg he goes to Japan and from there he goes back on a Dutch ship and back home to England where he finds his family safely.

Swift uses mainly satire involving politics and historical events while in this part he uses more satiric comparisons involving art, science and music. He was doing so to express the amount of reliance and rationalism that people had on theories during the Enlightenment Period. Also, the ideas of scientist that Swift used came from the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge. Many of the scientist that Swift uses were promoters of theories in this time along with members of this Royal Society.

Gulliver was in England for two months before he began to get restless again. He decides to set Sail again ,but this time he planned to travel to Cape of Good Hope and the Madagascar. Once again he sails into a horrible storm and gets swept away and awakes on an island and believes there is no one around. He begins looking for his boat and discovers that it is sailing back out to sea and that a giant is chasing behind it. He then takes a look at his surroundings and realizes that everything is huge. In the midst of all of this a giant picks him up and puts him in its pocket. The giant gives gulliver to his master and then he brings him home to his family and has him over for dinner. Gulliver begins sleeping in Glumdalclitches doll bed and she becomes his caretaker and teaches him the customs of the Giants. The Farmer takes Gulliver and eventually begins making money off showing him at markets. He believes Gulliver will make him a great fortune. Gulliver begins to become dangerously exhausted by all the travelling and showing The Farmer is doing to him. The Farmer plans to become as rich as possible before Gulliver passes away. An order comes from the court that tells The Farmer to bring Gulliver back to his the Queen for her entertainment. She then buys him from The Farmer for a thousand gold pieces. Gulliver requests that Glumdalclitch live in the palace as well. The Queen brings him to The King and he is amazed by him. They both enjoy his company very much. Gulliver describes Brobdingnag in a great deal. Living there becomes very difficult for Gulliver because of his size the dangers are increased massively. Gulliver often goes to see the KIng as he wishes to know more about England and its government. After Gulliver has been in Brobdingnag for two years he wishes to leave as he is being treated like a pet. Coincidentally a bird flies over and picks up Gulliver and his travelling box and drops them into the sea later some sailors come by and pick him up and take him back to England. Upon arrival Gulliver feels much larger than everyone in England.

POLITICAL SATIRE

One big example of satire that Swift uses within Part Two is the status of the laws in Brobdingnag. In most Governments laws are overwritten and long drawn out. Laws within Brobdingnag are simple, such as Swift describes as “No law in that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only of two and twenty… They are expressed in the most plain and simple terms, where in those people are not mercurial enough to discover above one interpretation: and to write a comment upon any law, is a capital crime.”

In “Chapter One” we are introduced to the narrator. We learn where he went to college that he is married and some of his past history about his father. We also learn that he gets shipwrecked on an island and whenever he wakes up he is surrounded by little people. This people have tied him down and he is unable to move. Throughout a period of time they feed him, and bring him to meet the emperor. In my opinion i feel like he could escape at anytime ,but he is choosing not too. Through out part one Gulliver is chained up in his room, although the Lilliput’s take very good care of him , everyday he asks them to release him. They inform him that he must wait and be patient. Finally, he is let free and after he regains his freedom he travels to Milendo, he is asked to do this by the emperor who wants to him to see the magnificence of his castle. After a while Reldresal comes to him and talks to him about the history between them and Blefuscu. He asks Gulliver to help protect Lilliput. After this Gulliver begins spying upon Blefuscu to come up with a war plan against them. Gulliver attacks their ships and pulls them back to Lilliput. Gulliver is then labeled as the hero over Lilliput. A couple weeks later Blefuscu surrender. Gulliver is asked to visit Blefuscu and the emperor allows it. Then Gulliver begins to tell us more about Lilliput and how all of their animals and plants are sized down to them and how that they are very well educated. They also believe that the earth is flat and they bury their dead with their heads facing downward because they feel they will rise again one day ,but the better educated ones do not believe in this custom anymore. The children are not raised by their parents, but by the entire town. The schools that the children attend depend upon their parents place within the kingdom. Time then passes and we learn that Gulliver is charged with treason by some enemies within the government , right before he is set to leave for Blefuscu. He is charged with public urination and refusing to seize the rest of the enemies warships. He was sentenced to execution and he tries to talk to Reldresal to shrink his sentenced to maybe only putting his eyes out. They agree to this and to slowly starve him to death. Three days later he spots a boat that is big enough for him and he asks the emperor of Blefuscu to fix it up for him. The emperor of Blefuscu sends a letter to Lilliput informing them that he will be leaving both their kingdoms soon. After a month the boat is finally repaired and Guliver sets sail back to England and when he finally arrives he begins making a living off of showing mini animals he put in his pockets before he set sail.

There is Political Satire within this Chapter, we learn from the very beginning that there is some similarity between Chapter 1 and what is going on within foreign policy of England at this time. At this point in time England was in the middle of recolonization with other countries. England is very small, but it is strong because of it’s “formidable feet”, just like the little men within the story. Also, Lilliput’s generals or people of higher power are elected by their rope dancing , while in the British government they would be asked to do tasks almost like “jumping through hoops”. Also, The High Heels and The Low Heels also relate to the Whigs and the Tories in Europe at the time, while Lilliput and Blefuscu are like England and France at the time. Another thing is that the Big Endians and Little Endians are like the Catholics and Protestants within the Protestant Reformation. Many of the customs that we learn about within part one and are much like many of the Political customs that are being held within the European countries within this time period.

In “Chapter One” we are introduced to the narrator. We learn where he went to college that he is married and some of his past history about his father. We also learn that he gets shipwrecked on an island and whenever he wakes up he is surrounded by little people. This people have tied him down and he is unable to move. Throughout a period of time they feed him, and bring him to meet the emperor. In my opinion i feel like he could escape at anytime ,but he is choosing not too.

There is Political Satire within this Chapter,AT we learn from the very beginning that there is some similarity between Chapter 1 and what is going on within foreign policy of England at this time. At this point in time England was in the middle of recolonization with other countries. England is very small, but it is strong because of it’s “formidable feet”, just like the little men within the story.

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton