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Chauta, Gopal. "Gulliver's Travels is written by Seventeenth century Anglo-Irish prose writer Jonathan Swift. Jonathan swift employed literary device called invective, satire in his writing to cure social malaise of seventeenth century society. Gulliver's travels are a p." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 9, no. 4 (April 28, 2021): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v9i4.10988.

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Gulliver's Travels is written by Seventeenth century Anglo-Irish prose writer Jonathan Swift. Jonathan swift employed literary device called invective, satire in his writing to cure social malaise of seventeenth century society. Gulliver's travels are a political allegory in which seventeenth century society is highlighted in many aspects. There is a character called Lemuel Gulliver which is enterprising and adventurous underwent a voyage to Lilliput. The author gives some account of himself and family. His first inducement to travel. He is shipwrecked and swims for his life gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput is made prisoner and carried up the country. The emperor of Lilliput attended by several of the nobility, come to see the author in his confinement. The Emperor's person and habit described. Learned men appointed to teach the author the language. He gains favor by his mild disposition. His pockets are searched and his sword & pistols taken from him.

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Bayliffe, Janie, Raymond Brie, and Beverly Oliver. "Tech Time: Using Technology to Enhance “My Travels with Gulliver”." Teaching Children Mathematics 1, no. 3 (November 1994): 188–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/tcm.1.3.0188.

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“Journey in Mathematics: 'My Travels with Gulliver'” is a California state-approved fourth-through sixth-grade unit integrating mathematics, reading, listening, writing, and drawing. The unit is based on the classic story Gulliver's Travels, written by Jonathan Swift in 1726, which describes Gulliver's voyages to Lilliput, the land of tiny people, and Brobdignag, the land of giants. Titania is a land created by the authors of the unit, and Ourland is the students' own classroom. The unit encourages students to explore scaling, measurement, area, and perimeter in a hands-on fashion, such as when Gulliver encounters a carpet peddler.

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Taylor, D. F. "JONATHAN SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels, ed. DAVID WOMERSLEY." Notes and Queries 60, no. 4 (October 30, 2013): 611–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjt204.

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Deyab, Mohammad Shaaban Ahmad. "An Ecocritical Reading of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels." Nature and Culture 6, no. 3 (December 1, 2011): 285–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2011.060305.

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Numerous critics have studied Jonathan Swift's use of animals as satirical tools in Gulliver's Travels. However, none has devoted sufficient attention to Swift's forerunning “ecocritical“ concern with animal issues in relation to humans. Although the animal theme in Gulliver's Travels does involve satirical intentions, this paper aims at showing that it has more profound implications that manifest Swift's forward-looking ideas regarding the relation between humans and their natural environment, as represented in the human-animal relationship. The ethical stand and moral commitment to the natural world represented by animals, and the care for making the themes of a literary work a means to create connections between man and the natural environment around him, are basic ecocritical values that Swift stresses both explicitly and implicitly throughout the novel.

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Marshall, Ashley. "Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 47, no. 1 (2014): 40–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2014.0052.

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LÓPEZ PÉREZ, Magdalena. "Gulliver's Travels (Libro III) La sátira y su traducción." Hikma 4, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/hikma.v4i4.6736.

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Jonathan Swift se caracteriza por sus abundantes escritos satíricos, entre los que se encuentra su obra más importante y reconocida, Gulliver’s Travels. Su estilo y lenguaje propios confieren a dicha obra una sólida unidad, mediante la cual consigue inducir al lector a la contradicción y convencerle de la historia, aún siendo evidente la imposibilidad natural del hecho que narra. Sin embargo, tales contradicciones satíricas no siempre son recogidas en las diversas traducciones que se han realizado de esta obra.

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Anggawirya, Arin Mantara, and Lastika Ary Prihandoko. "A Voyage To Lilliput of Gulliver's Travel: Environmental Hedonism." ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 3, no. 1 (March 29, 2020): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.34050/els-jish.v3i1.9529.

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This paper analyzes the notion of environment pictured in Gulliver’s Travel: A Voyage to Lilliput by Jonathan Swift in 1762. In analyzing the environment, the writers related some issues in this novel to the concept of eco-cosmopolitan society by P. Marland, and elaborating the issues of environment in this novel through the concept of ecocriticism by L. Buell. Through Gulliver’s travel: a Voyage to Lilliput, the notions of Plague, Economical Crisis, Famine and Environmental hedonism were pictured. Lilliput society that living with Gulliver rise another perspective on seeing the environment, which gives the illustration on how these small creatures adapt to sustain Gulliver as a giant

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Goodwin, Craufurd D. "The First Globalization Debate: Crusoe vs. Gulliver." QA Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria, no. 3 (September 2011): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/qu2011-003005.

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Two of the earliest novels in English, Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe and Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, are widely perceived as an entertaining adventure story and a pioneering work of science fiction. Viewed by modern economists, however, they appear as expressions of opposing positions on the desirability of integration within a world economy. Crusoe demonstrated the gains from trade and colonization and the attendant social and political benefits. By contrast, Swift warned of complex entanglements that would arise from globalization, especially with foreign leaders who operated from theory and models rather than common sense.

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Konkol, Sławomir, and Bartosz Mychal. "Houyhnhnms on the Island of Doctor Moreau: An Analysis of Monstrosity." Media i Społeczeństwo 19, no. 2 (December 29, 2023): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0054.1954.

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Monstrosity in literature takes vivid forms, from quasi-human beings to utterly inhuman ones. This paper both analyses and compares two of its forms – Houyhnhnms of Jonathan Swift's satire titled Gulliver's Travels, and the Beast People of The Island of Doctor Moreau, the science-fiction novel by Herbert George Wells. The article also depicts the figures of these authors themselves, as well as the historical background of their works; furthermore, it analyses the matter of anthropomorphising inhuman monstrosity and its influence on readers. By noticing similarities between Houyhnhnms and the Beast People, the text classifies them both into the kind of monstrosity developed neither by Jonathan Swift or H.G. Wells.

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Al-Ramahi, Raed, Abdelhameed Al Awabdeh, and Shireen Alkurdi. "The Reception of Jonathan Swift throughout the Victorian Era: Diverse Perspectives of Swift among Critics." World Journal of English Language 14, no. 1 (November 24, 2023): 224. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/wjel.v14n1p224.

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Jonathan Swift, a prominent figure in the literary landscape of the eighteenth century, was widely recognized for his provocative and controversial satirical works. Scholars and literary experts have engaged in ongoing discussions and analysis over the controversial nature of his literary creations throughout the span of several centuries. While certain critics have said that his written works exhibit signs of misogyny, racism, and colonialism perspectives, alternative perspectives have seen him as a potent advocate for humanism and a catalyst for social change. This research focuses on the Victorian Era, spanning from 1837 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and explores the various interpretations of Jonathan Swift's literary works within this historical period. This research draws upon the perspectives of several critics, such as Kelly, Orrery, Real, Thackeray, Macaulay, Graik, Bucknill, LoForte-Rand, and Taine, to assert that Swift was a figure of considerable controversy. The current study has also reached the finding that Swift demonstrated argumentative inclinations. The existence of multiple readings of Swift's Gulliver's Travels serves as support for this claim.

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Deconinck-Brossard, Françoise. "“Gulliver’s Travels”: Jonathan Swift, ed. by Pierre Morère." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 35, no. 1-2 (2002): 87–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2002.0020.

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Havard, John Owen. "Swift's Political Climates." Eighteenth Century 63, no. 3-4 (September 2022): 221–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecy.2022.a927517.

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Abstract: Jonathan Swift imbued the weather, both real and imagined, with multivalent personal and political significance. In Gulliver's Travels (1726), he presented the science-fictional scenario of an island floating above the weather and blocking sunlight from the desolate land below. In his writings on Ireland, Swift depicted the despoiling of the Irish landscape as the product of a wasteful colonial trade regime. In both obvious and more subtle ways, Swift drew upon natural and unnatural climates to gesture towards alternative trajectories for the future British Empire and resisted the emergent course of global capitalism. By contrast, in his private writings—especially his correspondence with Alexander Pope—Swift forged a complexly layered accommodation with an environment whose ills he saw as both inevitable and manmade. Beyond illuminating his own writings, these reflections carry lessons for the present, including the tendency, in an age of confirmed climate change, to project a singular fate for mankind onto changing skies. At a more down-to-earth level, Swift shows how grand concerns with the climate and man's place in the world obscure what we can accomplish "in the mean time" by looking to the world around us.

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Real, Hermann Josef. "Jonathan Swift—Autor von ‘Gulliver's Travels,’ Regierungspublizist, irischer Patriot und Querdenker der Aufklärung. Ein essayistisches Porträ t (Jonathan Swift—Author of ‘Gulliver's Travels,’ Government Journalist, Hibernian Patriot, and Maverick Thinker of the Enlightenment. An Essayistic Portrait)." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 50, no. 2 (2018): 180–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/scriblerian.50.2.0180.

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Utama, Endah Hari, and Muhammad Fatih Suhadi. "DEVIDE ET IMPERA IN JONATHAN SWIFT’S NOVEL GULLIVER’S TRAVELS." JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE 4, no. 1 (May 29, 2022): 154–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.30743/jol.v4i1.5278.

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This study discusses Devide et Impera in the novel Gulliver’s Travels, written by Jonathan Swift and published in 1726. This research is motivated by the writers’ interest in knowing about the conflict between the Lilliput and Blefuscu countries. The method used in this research is a descriptive qualitative method, and one of the significant theories used in this research is proposed by Morrock, who claims that there are four major tactics commonly used by those who make use of this Devide et Impera strategy. Seeing the divisions between the two countries, the reason is due to disagreements on how to crack eggs correctly. Emperor Liliput argues that the way to break eggs is with a sharp tip, while Blefuscu’s is different. As a result of these differences of opinion, in the end, it leads to an extraordinary conflict, namely a war that claims lives and weakens the economies of the two countries based on political strategy and political influence.

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Real, Hermann Josef. "Jonathan Swift—Autor von "Gulliver's Travels," Regierungspublizist, irischer Patriot und Querdenker der Aufklärung. Ein essayistisches Porträt (Jonathan Swift—Author of "Gulliver's Travels," Government Journalist, Hibernian Patriot, and Maverick Thinker of the Enlightenment. An Essayistic Portrait) by Heinz-Joachim Müllenbrock." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 50, no. 2 (2018): 180–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2018.0067.

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Shaytanov, I. O. "Muravyov, V. (2020). Swift's way. Moscow: Rudomino. (In Russ.)." Voprosy literatury, no. 2 (June 17, 2021): 276–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2021-2-276-281.

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The book is a collection of two texts separately brought out half a century ago: one on Jonathan Swift (1968), the other on his famous novel Gulliver's Travels (1972). If on the first publication they attracted attention it was thanks both to the hero, presented as a satirist and political journalist, and the author Vladimir Muravyov (1939-2001), who enjoyed a reputation among Moscow intelligentsia as a dissident intellectual whose taste in poetry was appreciated by Anna Akhmatova. The texts in a new book are identical to those published in the Soviet time. Muravyov must have mastered stylistic inventiveness of his hero — to speak in a manner quite direct and at the same time elusive. He wanted to tell a life story of the writer whom he had chosen as one of his literary guides and whose lifelong battle on the side of the Reason must have looked too archaic, and therefore safe, to the Soviet censor but quite actual to the penetrating eyes of the audience.

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MacCollum, David. "Design-Based Safety." Journal of System Safety 53, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.56094/jss.v53i1.96.

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In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote a novel about Gulliver’s Travels. The story of Gulliver’s first voyage describes the goals and mindset of the Lilliputians as they attempted to tie down and restrict technical advances known to larger and superior individuals. The story is a satire about how the real world’s progress is hampered by mental lightweights who object to better ways of doing things. Specialists in design-based system safety are vulnerable to “Lilliputians” who are out of touch with technology and engage a biased media in attempting to stop the use of reliable design-based safety.

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Alpatieva, N. V. "Гулливер в XXI веке: Максим Ладин и его «Путешествие в Страну мудраков»." Вестник гуманитарного образования, no. 1(33) (April 19, 2024): 134–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.25730/vsu.2070.24.014.

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This article examines the novel by the modern Russian writer Maxim Ladin "Journey to the Land of Mudraks. In the Footsteps of Gulliver" (2017), which is a kind of sequel to Jonathan Swift's famous novel Gulliver's Travels (1726). The philological analysis of this work is preceded by a brief story about other literary sequels of Swift's book, written in different genres by different authors of the twentieth century (L. N. Andreev, M. Ya. Kozyrev, A. V. Anikin, V. I. Savchenko, G. Gorin). The article analyzes the plot of Ladin's novel, the author's style and intertextual connections with the English novel. Much of what is said in the book by the Russian writer can remind the reader of modern reality – from household details (carriage lights, similar to daytime running lights in cars) to the mores of society (Lilliputian celebrities who are ready to do anything for fame). Ladin's text contains allusions to the original Gulliver's Travels – both direct (mentioning Swift's characters such as the Houyhnhnms and yahoos) and indirect (using dates and coordinates to create a plausibility effect). Ladin, like his great predecessor, uses various satirical techniques when describing the socio-political life of the characters, sometimes not shying away from physiology, which was often reproached by Swift. Ladin's book is written "in the spirit" of the famous "Gulliver's Travels" and is also a satire on the mores of society, modern to its author. This story has not been studied before, but it is of undoubted interest from the point of view of literary reception. В данной статье рассматривается повесть современного российского писателя Максима Ладина «Путешествие в Страну мудраков. По следам Гулливера» (2017), являющуюся своего рода сиквелом к знаменитому роману Джонатана Свифта «Путешествия Гулливера» (1726). Филологический анализ данного произведения предваряется кратким рассказом о других литературных продолжениях книги Свифта, написанных в разных жанрах разными авторами ХХ в. (Л. Н. Андреевым, М. Я. Козыревым, А. В. Аникиным, В. И. Савченко, Г. Гориным). В статье анализируется сюжет повести Ладина, авторский стиль и интертекстуальные связи с английским романом. Многое из того, о чем говорится в книге российского писателя, может напомнить читателю современную реальность – от бытовых деталей (фонари карет, похожие на дневные ходовые огни в машинах) до нравов общества (лилипутские знаменитости, готовые ради славы на все). В тексте Ладина присутствуют аллюзии на оригинальные «Путешествия Гулливера» – как прямые (упоминание таких персонажей Свифта, как гуигнгнмы и еху), так и косвенные (использование дат и координат для создания эффекта правдоподобия). Ладин, как и его великий предшественник, пользуется различными сатирическими приемами при описании общественно-политической жизни героев, не чураясь порой и физиологичности, в которой нередко упрекали Свифта. Книга Ладина написана «в духе» знаменитых «Путешествий Гулливера» и также является сатирой на нравы общества, современного ее автору. Данная повесть ранее не была изучена, однако представляет несомненный интерес с точки зрения литературной рецепции.

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Santamaria, Laura. "vocês mediadas de la subalternidade. Estampas de la colonización." EXILIUM Revista de Estudos da Contemporaneidade 4, no. 6 (June 19, 2023): 69–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.34024/exilium.v4i6.15225.

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En este artículo analizaremos las siguientes tres obras: Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave (1688), de Aphra Behn; Gulliver’s Travels (1726), de Jonathan Swift; e Paradisos Oceànics (1930), Aurora Bertrana, con el objetivo de estudiar cómo estos tres autores occidentales re-presentaron y combatieron los resultados del colonialismo y la esclavitud que observaron en sus viajes. En concreto nos centraremos en los conceptos de orientalismo y espacios terceros (Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, Salman Rushdie) y de subalternidad (Gayatri Spivak) para presentar la estrategia que utilizaron con el fin de subvertir la ideología dominante. En todos los casos, a pesar de la manifiesta voluntad de reconocer al otro, el punto de vista occidental junto con las representaciones sociales que se derivan está presente en las tres obras. Behn y Bertrana relatan lo que observan, y hallamos instancias de multilingüismo y multiculturalidad, lo cual da pie a la generación de espacios terceros donde deben existir los pueblos dominados. Swift crea unos mundos ficticios, que visita exclusivamente Gulliver, siempre con el ánimo de respeto hacia el otro y de denuncia constante contra la ocupación colonial, pero para ello debe utilizar distintas estrategias de censura que le aseguren que su obra será publicada.

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Müllenbrock, Heinz-Joachim. "31. Jonathan Swift, Autor von Gulliver’s Travels, Regierungspublizist, irischer Patriot und Querdenker der Aufklärung. Ein essayistisches Porträt / Jonathan Swift: Author of Gulliver’s Travels, government propagandist, Irish patriot and Enlightmenment free-thinker." English and American Studies in German 2015, no. 1 (November 1, 2015): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/east-2016-0032.

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Noletto, Israel Alves Correa, Sebastião Alves Teixeira Lopes, and Margareth Torres de Alencar Costa. "Satire in Swift’s Own Words: Considerations on Glossopoesis in Gulliver’s Travels." Journal of English Language and Literature 7, no. 2 (April 30, 2017): 519–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17722/jell.v7i2.313.

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Jonathan Swift’s satire Gulliver’s Travels has always been subject of extensive research. However, some points are deserving of more discussion. The present essay aims to exploit those points, namely the languages invented by the author, tracing their possible origins and explaining their glosses as accurately as achievable, by researching the most relevant references available like Ehrenpreis (1948), Asimov (1980), Clark (1972) and Pons (1972), and investigating the relevant matters in his writing, hence providing a more specific study on Swift’s memorable glossopoeias, which, in turn, will also corroborate to a wider understanding of the writer’s satiric view, otherwise hidden in the author’s neologisms. While this paper does not claim to have deciphered every and any ‘artificial’ word Swift coined, it has certainly contributed an enhanced comprehension of the glossopoeias found in the texts.

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Pratas, Jacqueline Dos Santos, and Lauro Maia Amorim. "Hibridismo linguístico e a simulação temporal em reescritas de Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift." Entrepalavras 9, no. 3 (December 19, 2019): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.22168/2237-6321-31658.

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Neste artigo analisam-se duas traduções e uma adaptação de Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift, obra orginalmente escrita no século XVIII, com o objetivo de observar se o emprego da norma padrão poderia ser um instrumento que auxilie na produção de um efeito de distanciamento temporal derivado de seleções lexicais e da adoção de estruturas linguísticas determinadas que atenderiam à representação semântica, sintática e estilística desse distanciamento. Constatou-se, com os resultados da análise, que, de fato, os tradutores lançaram mão do uso estratégico de determinadas seleções lexicais e estruturas gramaticais que evocam o efeito de distanciamento temporal, mas, em algumas das versões analisadas, observou-se também o emprego híbrido concomitante de construções linguísticas mais próximas de um certo registro informal, especialmente no caso da adaptação voltada para o público juvenil.

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Shahmuradyan, Anahit. "The Picaresque in the 18th century English Novel." Armenian Folia Anglistika 4, no. 1-2 (5) (October 15, 2008): 108–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2008.4.1-2.108.

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The Picaresque novel was one of the first steps of the establishment of the Spanish realist novel in early Renaissance period. The Picaresque theme found its direct reflection in the 18th century English novel. Both Daniel Defoe in his Moll Flanders, Captain Singleton and other works, Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels and Henry Fielding in his The history of Tom John, a Foundling wish to reveal the true picture of the values and morals of the time, the real strives and face of man, the social motives which often create inextricable situations for people and promote picaresque actions making them become a thief and picaroon.

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Dupeyron-Lafay, Françoise. "La postérité du livre IV de Gulliver's Travels de Jonathan Swift : The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) de H. G. Wells." XVII-XVIII. Revue de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 56, no. 1 (2003): 147–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/xvii.2003.1823.

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Stroganova, T. "THE STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF REPETITION IN THE NOVEL “GULLIVER’S TRAVELS” BY JONATHAN SWIFT." Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (Linguistics), no. 3 (2016): 220–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18384/2310-712x-2016-3-220-228.

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Craven, Kenneth. "Gulliver’s Travels and Other Writings, Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Context Critical Essays by Jonathan Swift." Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats 38, no. 2 (2006): 303–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scb.2006.0033.

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Blumenthal, Susanna L. "Seeing Like an Anti-Fraud State." Law and History Review 40, no. 4 (November 2022): 855–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248022000712.

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“They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death,” Jonathan Swift famously wrote of the fictional island of Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels. Appearing as an epigraph of Edward Balleisen's Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff, it invites comparison of Lilliput with the United States, not least because it is paired with a 2007 quotation from the former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who was rather more philosophical about fraud. As the world teetered on the edge of economic crisis, he wrote it off as a regrettable but inevitable part of “the way human nature functions,” suggesting that “what successful economies do is keep it to a minimum.” Looking backward, Balleisen finds greater ambivalence in the historical record, as a matter of both human psychology and American law. From the nation's founding, he observes, “the country's lionization of entrepreneurial freedom has given aid and comfort to the perpetrators of duplicitous schemes.” But this is not to say that they have been allowed to act with impunity. To the contrary, their creative deceptions have inspired a wide array of anti-fraud initiatives, operating “at the leading edge of regulatory innovation.” In chronicling these conflicting and conflicted pursuits of profit and justice over the course of two centuries of American history, Balleisen brilliantly elucidates an enduring dilemma of governance: how to promote ingenuity without undermining “‘the capital of confidence upon which all progress depends.’”

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Fisch, Menachem. "Gulliver and the Rabbis: Counterfactual Truth in Science and the Talmud." Religions 10, no. 3 (March 26, 2019): 228. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10030228.

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The paper presents Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels as the first systematic attempt to claim that the normal methods of testing belief and opinion for clarity, consistence, coherence, and how they stand to the facts are powerless when applied to deep-seated normative commitments, or what Wittgenstein dubbed “framework truths.” To subject our norms to normative critique requires a measure of self-alienation that cannot be achieved merely by looking hard at or thinking hard about our world and ourselves. However, by closely examining the contrived counterfactual scenarios (or, as I have shown in former work, by exposure to the normative critique of significant others), that Swift is shown to claim, such normative framework assumptions can be challenged to great effect! The standard epistemologies of his day—Baconian empiricism and Cartesian rationalism—fiercely ridiculed in the course of Gulliver’s third voyage are cruelly dismissed as powerless to change the course of science and keep it in normative check. The transformative effect of the clever thought experiments presented in the three other voyages (of imagining London shrunk to a twelfth of its size and enlarged to giant proportions, and a more responsible and intelligent race of beings inserted above (normally sized) humans) enable Swift to obtain critical normative distance from several major assumptions about politics, religion, aesthetics, ethics, and much more, including the limits of the thought experiment itself. The paper then goes to show how the same kind of counterfactual scenarios are put to impressive use in the Talmudic literature, with special reference to foundational questions of ethics and law.

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Echauri Galván, Bruno. "Burlando a los censores en el siglo XXI: Reescritura y censura en el aula de traducción a través de una actividad práctica." Quaderns. Revista de traducció 27 (May 31, 2020): 169–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/quaderns.14.

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El presente artículo detalla una experiencia docente articulada en torno a dos fragmentos de dos obras distintas: Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift (1726/1892), y 1984, escrita por George Orwell (1949/1979). La reescritura del primero sirve como iniciación y toma de contacto para la actividad principal, centrada en reescribir y traducir la distopía de Orwell. Esta propuesta busca consolidar las explicaciones teóricas referentes al concepto de reescritura y a los procesos de censura ocurridos en nuestro país durante la dictadura franquista a través de una actividad práctica que aúne también creatividad y pensamiento crítico. Con ella, se espera que los alumnos aprendan a reconocer la diferencia entre traducir y reescribir y apliquen procedimientos de traducción propios de las obras censuradas como la amplificación o modificaciones de distinto tipo. Asimismo, la implementación de una actividad de estas características en el programa de la asignatura Fundamentos de la Traducción pretende alcanzar varios de los objetivos generales y específicos del curso y amenizar la enseñanza de la traducción a través de una acción docente que pueda resultar atractiva y motivadora.

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Nicolini, Matteo. "Praising the World “by Geometrical Terms”: Legal Metrics, Science and Indicators in Swift’s Voyage to Laputa." Pólemos 13, no. 2 (September 25, 2019): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pol-2019-0015.

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Abstract The article focuses on the epistemological paradigms that underpin the current trends in comparative legal research, by assessing them within the framework of the law-and-literature movement. In particular, it examines the scientific state of mind and the veering towards quantitative approaches which now percolate through legal comparative studies. The article argues that such state of mind is not merely confined to the ambit of comparative law. It has indeed several traits in common with the scientific mentality which has been saturating the knowledge system in Western culture since the seventeenth century. This scientific state of mind was one of Jonathan Swift’s main targets. In Gulliver’s Travels, A Tale of a Tub, and A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, Swift satirised the seventeenth-century scientific program, which had reduced the advancement of knowledge into a system that is very similar to twenty-first century information systems. This reduction was influenced by Cartesian philosophy and was achieved through methodological innovation. But it was also a consequence of the debate on ancient and modern learning, which had originated in France, but had immediate resonance in England. Swift rejected absolute reliance on quantitative methods: not only does this make it possible to set an equation between law and literature, but it also allows us to bring humanities into the debate about quantification in comparative law – and, as a consequence, to reappraise through literature some common assumptions we usually make about the law.

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Karasaliu, Alma. "SHAPING SWIFT’S EXPRESSIVENESS THROUGH THE TRANSLATION OF HIS METAPHORS IN ALBANIAN LANGUAGE." CBU International Conference Proceedings 4 (September 22, 2016): 325–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.12955/cbup.v4.775.

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Metaphors have become the focus of a wide variety of discussions in the field of translation theory and practice. They are important rhetorical devices with cognitive function that have been thoroughly studied and considered important by various scholars. Taking into consideration the difficulties implied with identifying and translating such devices, this article aims to identify the procedures employed in translating some of the metaphors present in “A Tale of a Tub” and “Gulliver’s Travels”, two of the most prominent satires of Jonathan Swift. In this context, based on the translation procedures suggested by Raymond van den Broeck, special attention is given to the formal characteristics and efficiency of the relevant devices in the target language and the degree to which the originality of the message intended by the author in the source language is conserved and conveyed in the target language, with focus on the culture compatibility between both target and source languages. Finally, the high level of naturalness and presence of various translation procedures employed in the conveyance of metaphors in both works is stated, emphasizing the use of an additional approach, not mentioned in either the procedures suggested by van den Broeck or those suggested by Newmark.

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MAYHEW, ROBERT J. "The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, vol. XVI: Gulliver's Travels. Edited by DAVIDWOMERSLEY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. £85 (hb). ISBN 978-0-521-84164-1." Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36, no. 4 (November 13, 2013): 597–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12028.

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García Izquierdo, Isabel. "Análisis textual y contraste interlingüístico. La traducción de la conjunción en Los viajes de Gulliver de J. Swift." TRANS. Revista de Traductología, no. 5 (June 9, 2017): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/trans.2001.v0i5.2906.

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Las recientes investigaciones en el campo de la Traductología han destacado la importancia de los enfoques comunicativos para explicar el acto traductor. Entre estos enfoques, ocupa un lugar preeminente, desde el punto de vista lingüístico, el llamado Enfoque textual. Desde esta perspectiva, es innegable la importancia decisiva que el texto de partida (sus convenciones textuales y contextuales) y las condiciones de producción de éste tendrán en la configuración del producto traducido. De ahí el interés fundamental de los estudios contrastivos para el analista de la traducción. Sólo con un buen conocimiento de cómo funcionan las citadas convenciones en las lenguas estudiadas y, sobre todo, teniendo en cuenta los resultados que puede ofrecernos el contraste interlingüístico, podremos responder de manera adecuada a los problemas planteados por la equivalencia comunicativa. El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre la traducción del inglés al español de uno de los mecanismos cohesivos más significativos: la conjunción. El análisis se lleva a cabo utilizando las versiones traducidas al español (1977, 1987, 1997 y 1997AN) del Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift, y el propósito es mostrar que las propuestas ofrecidas no siempre responden a cuestiones relacionadas con los sistemas lingüísticos implicados (que, obviamente, también serán responsables de algunas de las soluciones), sino que, en muchas ocasiones, resultan de la adecuación a las convenciones contextuales y a la funcionalidad, por tanto, del producto en la lengua meta.

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Asst. Prof. Dr. Haseeb Alias Hadeed, Asst Prof Dr Haseeb Alias Hadeed. "The Social Satire in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Al-Noor Journal for Humanities 1, no. 1 (May 31, 2024): 15–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.69513/jnfh.v1.i1.a3.

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ABSTRACT In Gulliver's Travels (1726) Swift presented different kinds of satire. These different kinds of satire divided the critics into groups with different points of view concerning the satirical tendencies in Gulliver's Travels. Swift concentrates on the inside of things rather than the outside; on actuality rather than illusion . It is important to note that Swift seized all the opportunities so as to direct his severe attack on different aspects of life. In Gulliver's Travels, there is emphasis laid on man's bad nature and his social role. His recognition of the defects in human nature leads him to depict human nature. Therefore, he presents the Yahoos as an embodiment of all the well-known human vices and follies. So, he ruthlessly satirizes bad elements in man's nature over which man has a full control. He believes that man is capable of keeping them under his control.

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Gong, Xuan. "Dual Focalization in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels." Journal of Narrative Theory 51, no. 1 (2021): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jnt.2021.0000.

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Barbé-Petit, Françoise. "La violence et ses représentations dans Gulliver's Travels de Swift." XVII-XVIII. Revue de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 44, no. 1 (1997): 17–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/xvii.1997.1364.

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Laitinen, Dana. ""I Trot Like a Horse": The Early Modern Animal Debate in Gulliver's Travels." Philosophy and Literature 48, no. 1 (April 2024): 204–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2024.a930338.

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Abstract: Does Gulliver's apparent equiphilia (love for equines) at the conclusion of Jonathan Swift's satire signify madness or misanthropy? I say neither, and propose that the neighing narrator is a satirical figure encompassing the animal debate between Michel de Montaigne and René Descartes. Swift's satire, I argue, addresses the early-modern controversy over human-animal distinctions by dramatizing a profound skepticism toward human reason. Swift's stance is registered in a vacillation between literalization of human-animal conversations, lampooning Montaigne, and satirizing Cartesian mechanism. I conclude that the greatest paradox of Gulliver's Travels is that Swift's satirization of skepticism is an endorsement of skepticism itself.

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Barbour, Brian. "The Crucifix and the Post." Renascence 73, no. 3 (2021): 149–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/renascence202173312.

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An unremarked major theme in Gulliver's Travels is, Why does Gulliver lose his Christian faith? In Part III he is a devout Anglican who unlike Dutch Calvinists will not disrespect the crucifix, even at the cost of not being allowed to return home. In Part IV he dismisses the crucifix as a "post," a thing "indifferent." What has happened is made clear in Chap. VII where Gulliver's reveals his parodic or inverted conversion to the ruling principle of the Houyhnhnms, that "Reason alone is sufficient to govern a rational creature." For Swift that disastrous alone is a grave error, linking the earlier errors of the Reformation - sola gratia, sola fide, sola scriptura - with the coming darkness of the Enlightenment. Gulliver's loss of faith is predictive of the next phase of European intellectual life.

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LÓPEZ FOLGADO, Vicente. "La sátira en Gulliver's Travels: versiones de la Parte IV." Hikma 4, no. 4 (October 1, 2005): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/hikma.v4i4.6735.

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En este trabajo se aborda el contexto social y político que nutrió la vena satírica de J. Swift en su narración Los Viajes de Gulliver. De forma más concreta, se hace una aproximación a la Parte 4 que consiste en una mordaz denuncia del ser humano, como culpable de toda suerte de corruptelas morales. Esta sin par pieza subvierte los valores que detentan los despreciables yahoos humanos y los sabios e inocentes caballos. Finalmente, reviso algunas de las traducciones españolas más destacadas de la obra, señalando algunas diferencias entre los textos.

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Jamil Bani-Khair, Baker Mohammad. "Diminution and Magnification: Gothic Images in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 8, no. 5 (November 2, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.8n.5p.25.

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This paper studies two significant techniques in Jonathon Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) which are diminution and magnification as influential devices which show gothic and supernatural images throughout the whole novel. The paper investigated and analyzed the supernatural images in terms of the gothic fantasy and its elements such as the ones that relate to the sublime, horror, and exotic images. The study concluded that the use of those two techniques of diminution and magnification tend to create several and various effects on the plot, characters, and the narrative development which increase the level of suspense in a critical framework.

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Völker, Oliver. ",,Auskehricht“: Figuren des Globalen und des Randständigen in Johann Carl Wezels Belphegor und Jonathan Swifts Gulliver’s Travels." Literatur für Leser 43, no. 2 (January 1, 2022): 89–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/lfl.2020.02.02.

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Abstract Kurz nach seiner Veröffentlichung verschwand Johann Carl Wezels Roman Belphegor (1776) aus der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung und dem etablierten Feld der deutschen Literatur. Bisherige Lektüren haben dafür dessen Misanthropie und Skeptizismus angeführt. In diesem Artikel lenke ich den Blick hingegen auf die Bedeutung von Marginalisierten und Entrechteten für den Roman selbst, indem ich dessen Darstellung des atlantischen Sklavenhandels und somit seine Situiertheit in den Widersprüchen der Spätaufklärung hervorhebe. Die monotone Zeit- und Raumstruktur des Romans, so die These, macht den Handel und die Zirkulation von in Dinge verwandelten Menschen abbildbar, die im Schatten von normativen Modellen des Kosmopolitismus und universeller Rechte stehen. Aus dieser Perspektive wird Belphegor im Kontext der europäischen Kolonialgeschichte lesbar, was durch einen abschließenden Bezug zu Jonathan Swifts Gulliver’s Travels (1726) verdeutlicht wird.

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Korosteleva, N. V. "«Gulliver's Travels» by J. Swift in the graphic art of Alexandre Benois." Декоративное искусство и предметно-пространственная среда. Вестник МГХПА, no. 2-1 (2023): 363–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2022_2_1_363_370.

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Smith, George P. "Reviving the Swan, Extending the Curse of Methuselah, or Adhering to the Kevorkian Ethic?" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2, no. 1 (1993): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0963180100000621.

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Methuselah, it is said, lived 969 years. His state of health at death is not revealed. It can only be surmised that he was surely not robust and, no doubt, was subject to all of the infirmities of old age and the tragic indignities associated with senility.Jonathan Swift captured well the “curse” of immortality when, in Gulliver's Travels, he created a group of individuals, the Struldbrugs, who, when encountered, dulled what had heretofore been an appetite for perpetual life. The Struldbrugs were allowed to be born totally exempt from the “calamity of human Nature,” in that their minds were free “and disingaged (sic), without the Weight and De pression of Spirits caused by the continued Apprehension of Death.” They were thus condemned “to a perpetual continuance in the World.” In his travels, Gulliver found some Struldbrugs well over 1,000 years old.

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Hui, Haifeng, and Lei Fan. "Words Not in the Story: Paratextual Analysis of Moral Education in a School Edition of Gulliver's Travels in China." International Research in Children's Literature 8, no. 1 (July 2015): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2015.0147.

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As a world classic, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is on the compulsory reading list for elementary students in China, and many school editions have been published to meet this curricular requirement. This paper aims to reveal how the paratext, which is often neglected because of its peripheral position, contributes to moral education, especially in influencing young readers' positive interpretation of the protagonist. The two additional narrators which are introduced in the paratext by the translator/adapter form a dialogue with the main story and represent an effort to harness the story with a specific moral educational direction.

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Womersley, D. "Dean Swift Hears a Sermon: Robert Howard's Ash Wednesday Sermon of 1725 and Gulliver's Travels." Review of English Studies 60, no. 247 (April 15, 2009): 744–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/hgp031.

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Potkay, Adam. "Contested Emotions: Pity and Gratitude from the Stoics to Swift and Wordsworth." Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 130, no. 5 (October 2015): 1332–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2015.130.5.1332.

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Pity and gratitude are often classified among the moral emotions: pity responds to an undeserved ill that has befallen another, while gratitude affirms as good something given to us, as well as the agent who gave it. To some philosophers, however, pity and gratitude are never or rarely appropriate. For the Stoics, pity is unnecessary suffering for the person who pities, grounded in a mistaken view of what constitutes privation; Wollstonecraft and Godwin add that in a just society, there would be no pitiably needy people. Similarly, if assistance is reconceived as something due a person as a right, then the obligation to feel or express gratitude, or to render reciprocal service, is largely eliminated. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Justice is indebted to the Stoical, pitiless, and gentle Houyhnhnms of Gulliver's Travels, and it prompts in turn Wordsworth's representations of interpersonal encounter in “Simon Lee,” The Ruined Cottage, and The Prelude.

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Lestringant, Frank, and Noah Guynn. "Travels in Eucharistia: Formosa and Ireland From George Psalmanaazaar to Jonathan Swift." Yale French Studies, no. 86 (1994): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2930279.

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Leduc, Guyonne. "Langues inventées et langue anglaise dans Gulliver's Travels de Swift et dans "The Voyages of Mr. Job Vinegar" de Fielding." XVII-XVIII. Revue de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 53, no. 1 (2001): 99–143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/xvii.2001.1600.

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TARASOVA, Nataliia. "Travel motif in “Gulliver's Travels” by J. Swift, “Gargantua and Pantagruel” by F. Rabelais and the story of Ch. Dickens “A Christmas Carol in Prose”." Humanities science current issues 5, no. 35 (2021): 160–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.24919/2308-4863/35-5-24.

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Saeed, Lec Manaar Kamil. "Swift's Subversive Satire: Unveiling Society's Foibles in Gulliver's Travels." International Journal of Social Science and Human Research 7, no. 03 (March 31, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i03-85.

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This study aimed to investigate the effects of a specific intervention on a particular outcome. Its primary objective is to examine a given intervention's impacts on a well-defined group. The analysis explores the employment of Satire by Jonathan Swift in his renowned literary masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels. Satire is an academic technique, authors employ to expose and criticize the illogical and immoral aspects of an individual or a society, employing comic elements, irony, exaggeration, or scorn. Gulliver's Travels effectively utilizes a range of literary tropes, such as Satire, skillfully conveyed through narration, setting, character development, and plot advancement. Jonathan Swift used many academic strategies in his satirical novel to create a backdrop combining utopia and dystopia elements. Additionally, he exploits certain character archetypes, such as a miser and tyrant figure, a moral touchstone, and a repulsive character, to effectively portray the desired character as typical. The deliberate employment of a first-person narrator is evident in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. Gulliver's Travels is a notable piece of literature wherein Jonathan Swift skillfully uses the method of Satire to aptly criticize the prevailing concerns of corruption, vices, and societal follies. However, Swift's scholarly endeavors encompass analyzing diverse aspects of society to employ Satire to critique the political system and sociological framework. The author's work aims to clarify the adverse outcomes that arise from uncontrolled greed and despair, ultimately leading to the deterioration and demise of society.

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