When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible misadventures awaiting. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Liliput--where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called the Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! he travels to Lapauta, a city that floats in the city, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. his final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos--a brutish race of subhumans--and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.
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Gullivers Travels
von Jonathan Swift
When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible misadventures awaiting. Shipwrecked at sea and nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Liliput--where the people are only six inches tall! Next he visits a land of incredible giants called the Brobdingnagians. They are more than sixty feet tall! he travels to Lapauta, a city that floats in the city, and to Glubbdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers. his final voyage brings him into contact with the Yahoos--a brutish race of subhumans--and an intelligent and virtuous race of horse, the Houyhnhnms.
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Rezension von NadiraHonestly a brilliant way to criticize the political situation(s) in England. I really liked this satire. Almost everyone in this book is a horrible person, most of all the majesties (which cannot not be related to Charles I and James Il). The Lilliputians are selfish, discussing his death as if he were an object; not killing him after all because his dead body would be too heavy to carry away, and the corpse would smell horrible. Treating him as a traitor after his visit to Blefuscu, no matter what good he did for the Lilliputians, no matter how hard he tried to please them, learned their language, served them (a story we all know from real life??). They have been at war with Blefuscu for years because they cannot agree on how to break eggs (small or large side??); alluding to disputes between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Of course, it is funny and banal while reading it, but these are actually really smart and obvious allegories; and the reality IS banal - what Swift wants to point out. The reason for the war is obviously not a good reason (if there ever would be a good reason). A quote that captures it perfectly I think: „The nobles seek power, the people seek liberty, the kings seek absolute rule, and civil wars result.“ In the second book Gulliver is the tiny person and everyone else is gigantic; the opposite of the first book and still it is the same. People treating him like their possession (except of the young daughter of the „Master“ - children are definitely the better humans), using him for their amusement, for own uses like owning money, like he is an animal in a circus. I also really enjoyed the small details of the change of his view and experience that came with the change of his seize: him almost drowning in ice cream, fighting with rats and so on, I think there are a lot of creative elements. With different circumstances appear different challenges; but no matter what happens Gulliver seems to never learn. My favorite quote - used by Gulliver to criticize others - also applies to himself, to people in the book and real life: „Lack of knowledge always causes many prejudices and narrow thinking“