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Satire: Gulliver’s Travels Part I

Satire: Gulliver’s Travels Part I. Hannah Dew. Summarize.

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Satire: Gulliver’s Travels Part I

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  1. Satire: Gulliver’s Travels Part I Hannah Dew

  2. Summarize Gulliver’s ship wrecked in Lilliput. In Lilliput, Gulliver finds that the tiny people are going to war with their neighbors over the right way to open a boiled egg. Should it be cracked from the big or little end? “it is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end; but his present Majesty’s grandfather, wile he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his fingers.” This was basically Jonathan Swift's satire on the wars between England and France in his own time, which were based on points just as silly as the "Big-Enders" vs. the "Little-Enders" and their quarrel.

  3. Identify The audience of this satire was mainly people that are stupid. Just like how England and France were not getting along at the time, Swift was trying to show them that they were being ridiculous. Lilliput and Blefuscu were against each other for the breaking of the egg and England and France were against each other For Swift, Lilliput is analogous to England, and Blefuscu to France. With this event of the story Swift satirizes the needless bickering and fighting between the two nations.

  4. Compare & Contrast Compared to the criticisms we use today, Swift and Chaucer did a better job. Both of them “disked” people; however, they did it in a very nonchalant way that took some in-depth reading to find out what they were critiquing. I side more with Chaucer, based on the story that I read. The reason I side with him is because he was more nonchalant than Swift was. Also, he was critiquing stupid people that fight over stupid stuff.

  5. Evaluate Things have not really changed since then. The main thing that has changed is that over time, people have became more educated, somewhat. However, there are still wars going on over stupid stuff; such as the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Jordan Intervention, Muscat and Oman Intervention, Ugandan Army Mutiny, and so many others. Some wars are still going on today. (http://www.historyguy.com/british_wars_1945present.htm).

  6. Personalize There are people like this still today. George W. Bush is a stupid man. He instigated the Iraq War, which is over territory. Fighting and killing people over land is just plain stupid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_and_the_Iraq_War) Saddam Hussein was a stupid people. He was sympathetic to the terrorist groups, which is stupid because why should there be a heart to terrorists? Another stupid person, well, someone who did a stupid thing, is my Step-Dad. The other day he was fussing with me and telling me that cording was called piping, which it is not. Then he looked at me and told me that he was not trying to argue with me. How wasn’t he trying to argue with me when he was going back and forth with me? So, it is stupid to fight over material.

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