1.

“Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is a complicated, unblinking

criticism of humanity”. Identify the objects of Swift’s satire.
https://neoenglish.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/what-are-the-objects-of-swift
%E2%80%99s-satire-in-gulliver%E2%80%99s-travels/
2. Speak on irony as Jonathan Swift’s major writing tool. What type of
irony does the author resort to in Gulliver’s Travels – verbal, situational
or dramatic?
http://neoenglishsystem.blogspot.com/2010/11/use-of-irony-in-gullivers-travels.html
3. Comment on the ways Jonathan Swift achieves verisimilitude in
Gulliver’s Travels.
https://erickalemangulliverstravels.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/verisimili-
what/
4. Ponder on Gulliver’s search of an ideal society. Is Gulliver’s Travels a
utopian or dystopian novel?
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/the-satirical-utopia-in-gullivers-travels/
5. Provide the analysis of the major themes in Gulliver’s Travels:

– travel, exploration and discovery;

– exploitation and abuse of power;
– individual vs. society;
– alienation;
– limits of human understanding;
– literature and language;
– materiality of human body;
– perspective and relativity;
– truth and deception;
– gender issues;
– knowledge vs. wisdom;
– absurdity of pride.
https://www.litcharts.com/lit/gulliver-s-travels/themes

6. Provide the analysis of Gulliver’s character.

7. Discuss the novel following the discussion guide.