"Gulliver's Travels" is a masterpiece by Jonathan Swift, the best British satirist and political commentator in the 18th century. The main purpose of the story is to criticize the British parliamentary politics and reactionary religious forces at that time. It is a satirical novel in the style of a fantasy travelogue. The story is told in the voice of a surgeon, Gulliver, who was shipwrecked and drifted to several strange countries. It deeply satirizes the corruption of current politics, satirizes the stupidity and ridiculousness of academics with bizarre and even disgusting plots, and reflects on the different aspects of human nature.
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Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, who is an educated and trained surgeon. He speaks to the readers retelling his experiences at sea. Presented as a simple traveler's narrative, Gulliver's adventures are divided into four parts.
The first part is situated in Lilliput where he finds himself in the company of thousands of miniature people called Lilliputians. The second is on the peninsulatype land of Brobdingnag, an opposite world from Lilliput where Gulliver becomes the Lilliputian and everyone is a giant to him. The third part moves to the island of Laputa, a floating island inhabited by theoreticians and academics which oppresses the land below, called Balnibarbi. Finally in the fourth part he arrives in an unknown land. Thi
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It is also fully in English, which is very helpful for improving your English level. It feels like following Gulliver on an adventure. It reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland", which is also a story full of fantasy and adventure. "I am a king, I can command the sun and the moon!" This sentence is so classic that it makes people laugh.
It is also fully in English, which is very helpful for improving your English level. It feels like following Gulliver on an adventure. It reminds me of "Alice in Wonderland", which is also a story full of fantasy and adventure. "I am a king, I can command the sun and the moon!" This sentence is so classic that it makes people laugh.