gulliver's travels as children's literature

Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil

Roll No. :- 23

Course No. 2 :- The Neo - Classical Literature

Presentation Topic :- Gulliver's Travels As Children's Literature

Enrolment No :- PG 14101016

M.A. English Semester - 1

Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016

Submitted to :-

Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Gulliver's Travels As Children's Literature

Gulliver’s Travels By Jonathan Swift

What is Children's Literature ??

• Children's literatureincludes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.

Gulliver's Travels As Children's

Literature

• Gulliver's Travels imaginative storyline and clear writing help make the book a children's classic, generally in abridged editions.

• Gulliver's Travels is perhaps most frequently encountered today in adaptations for film, stage, or television, many of which are aimed toward children and lack large sections of the story and Swift's satirical tone.

Four Parts Of Gulliver’s Travels

Part 1: A Voyage to Lilliput :-

• The islanders are small but full of self importance and quite dangerous although they are small. It has been argued the Lilliputians represent the English, their size represents the small size of England compared to the rest of the world but shows how powerful the English were at the time.

Part 2:- A Voyage to Brobdingnag :-

• The Brogingnagiansare physically a lot larger than Gulliver, however, they are less threatening than the small Lilliputians.

• Brobingnagians are large in size but they don't realise their potential power.

Part 3: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan :-

• In this part people were highly intelligent and spent a great deal of time studying but failed to produce anything productive.

• This could represent the government in England at the time of Swift.

Part 4: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms :-

• The Houyhnhnmsrepresent a successful society which benefits all of the Houyhnhnmsand considers them all equal.

• The Houynhnms are reasonable and have decent principles; however, they are not human.

• On the other hand the Yahoos represent all that is bad with human beings as they are uncivilized, greedy and violent.

Gulliver's Travels for both children and adults :-

• A perfect book for family reading. It has a little bit of everything in it to hold the attention of all ages.

• Gulliver's Travels for Kids is a wonderful new retelling of Jonathan Swift's classic work.

• Children are open to seeing new ways of life after reading this.