Guilliver's travels

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Guilliver's travels

Author

He actively participated in politics, even writing pamphlets against the Whigs, who were the rivals of the Tories, whom he supported.

His masterpiece, the novel that we already mentioned at the beginning of the article, was originally titled Travels to various remote nations.

You may not know it, but he is considered to be the creator of the feminine name Vanessa, which he devised to name a young woman with whom he shared part of his life and who, in reality, responded to the identity of Esther Vanhomrigh.

His father passed away before he was born

Fundamental ideas

Gulliver's Travels is one of the classics of English literature.

The work is a clever mix of a travel story, an intimate diary, and utopia.

The book was a formidable success, despite the fact that some partly explicit descriptions were removed and even banned.

Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift published the novel anonymously in 1726.

A satire of society

Behind the facade of strange adventures, we find a general criticism not only of English society in Swift's time, but of humanity and its dubious evolution.

It is the height of absurdity for the literature of the time

Although Swift's work (especially the first two chapters) ended up becoming a classic of youth literature

Characters

Mrs. Mary Burton Gulliver Gulliver's wife.

Flimnap Gulliver's enemy in Lilliput, accuses Gulliver of picking up his wife.

The emperor The leader of the Lilliputians. He is initially friendly with Gulliver, but changes his mind about him when Gulliver refuses to continue fighting Blefuscu and puts out a fire in the Empress chamber by urinating on him.

Blefuscudians The sworn enemies of the Lilliputians, live on a neighboring island. Gulliver flees to his island when the Lilliputians convict him of treason.

Gulliver El Capitán Lemuel Gulliver, el narrador.

Type of text

Of adventures

Literary

Narrativo

Adaptations to the big screen.

The best known is that of 2010 starring actor Jack Black which makes this fabulous novel look like a comedy genre