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    Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726. It follows the fantastical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver and is divided into four books, with each book depicting Gulliver's visit to a different imaginary nation. Through these voyages, Swift satirizes human nature and society, using allegory and irony to critique 18th century European politics, philosophy, and culture, as well as aspects of English institutions and values such as rationality, morality, and humanity.

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    Sintesi de I viaggi di Gulliver

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    GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

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    Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726. It follows the fantastical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver and is divided into four books, with each book depicting Gulliver's visit to a different imaginary nation. Through these voyages, Swift satirizes human nature and society, using allegory and irony to critique 18th century European politics, philosophy, and culture, as well as aspects of English institutions and values such as rationality, morality, and humanity.

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    Gulliver's Travels

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    Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel by Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726. It follows the fantastical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver and is divided into four books, with each book depicting Gulliver's visit to a different imaginary nation. Through these voyages, Swift satirizes human nature and society, using allegory and irony to critique 18th century European politics, philosophy, and culture, as well as aspects of English institutions and values such as rationality, morality, and humanity.

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    Gulliver's Travels

    by Jonathan Swift
    Divided in 4 books, it may be seen as:
    account of IMAGINARY ADVENTURES
    TRAVEL BOOK
    ALLEGORICAL STORY
    a TALE for CHILDREN
    SATIRICAL ESSAY
    published
    anonymously

    attack INSTITUTIONS
    "BOOM" of TRAVEL
    Satirize

    literature
    to denounce
    EUROPEAN VALUES,
    EMPTINESS VICIOUSNESS,
    and CORRUPTION HIPOCRISY, CRUELTY

    Characters are
    ALLEGORICAL
    PROTAGONIST: a
    middle-aged and
    well educated man
    and represent the
    typical European
    he changes with
    man
    situations and
    places
    victim od satire
    and of the
    reader's hostility

    RATIONALITY VS
    ANIMALITY
    THEMES shows to denounce
    follies and absurdities of
    the society

    CRITIC of EMGLISH
    INSTITUTION
    MORALITY Gulliver idealises his
    country but in reality it is
    dominated by hipocrisy
    and corruption
    Questions
    about
    HUMAN
    NATURE

    ALIENATIO
    N

    STYLE

    satire - mocking attack



    somethingelse
    allegory - symbol of
    irony - meaning is opposite

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