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.
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