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Size and Attitude Between People in "Gulliver's Travels"

Size and Attitude Between People
20/04/03 Sergei Djuvinov 11/1

Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels is a perfect example of the Enlightenment period writing. In his work Swift focuses on the individual and his place in society. Although the majority of readers believe that the novel compares the attitude toward people according to their size, the literary work actually implies the opposite. The author suggests that people judge a person based on his personality and the power they posses over him, not based on his size or outer appearance. Swift tells the reader that size should not form people’s opinion about a man. The writer achieves this impression through the careful use of satire and humor.
The reader best sees the comparison between sizes in the first two parts of the novel- Gulliver’s travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag. In his first adventure Gulliver is a giant, compared to the natives, who are only few inches t...

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