A Look at Gulliver’s Travels
The masterpiece of fantasy with unforgettable little people, giant people, flying islands, and talking horses, Jonathan Swift creates a new popular genre of realistic novel which is to present plausible details as if they were literally true through the book Gulliver’s Travels. Swift first published the book in London with the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World with the alias Lemuel Gulliver. Only a few knew that the real author was Dr. Swift, the distinguished Dean of the Anglican St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin. Many people including, Samuel Johnson, remember the novel as a as “a production so new and strange that it filled the reader with a mingled emotion of merriment and amazement.” Swift arises emotions by comparing and contrasting the church and state in the islands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag.