Gulliver’s Travelsas

Fairy Tale

Name: Baraiya Saryu D.

Subject: The Neo Classical Literature (Paper-II)

Roll no: 30

Study: MA

Year: Semester – I

Submitted To: Department of English

University: MKBU

Brief Introduction: Jonathan Swift

1667-1745

o Born: Dublino Moved to England at very young ageo Worked for Sir William Templeo In support of Anglican Churcheso Anglican priest in Irelando A brilient and very well konwn satiristo Wrote for Troyso A controversial writero His works: Concerend with politics and

societyo His well known and best satiric work:

‘ Gulliver’s Travels’

o Bigest satire on the societyo Died: Dublin

Fairy Tale:

o A type of short story

o Typically features

o Fantasy elements and

characters

o use of magic and

enchantment

o Narratives such as legend

o Give moral

Gulliver’s Travels as Fairy Tale :

1. Voyage to Lilliput

o “When bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human CREATURE not six inches high”

o “The Country round appeared like a continued Garden; and the enclosed Fields, which were generally Forty Feet square, resembled so many Beds of Flowers.”

2. Voyage to Brobdingnang

o “I observed a huge creature walking after a boat in the sea, and he walked not much deeper than his knees.”

o“ It was impossible for me to climb stile because every step was six feet high and upper stone above twenty.”

o “when I meat the queen I bow down, as sign of respect , and kissed the tip of her little pinky finger.”

3. Voyage to Laputa

o “the reader can hardly conceive my astonishment , to behold an island in the Air, inhabited by men… encompassed with several Gradations of Galleries and Stairs.”

4. Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

o“ I almost began to think that he(a horse) was speaking to himself.”o

oThey went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like Persons.

o “ I began to be in some Pain, how this Adventure might terminate.”

Thank you…