Gulliver's Travels Book I
In Book 1 of Gulliver's Travels, Swift tells the tale of Gulliver's fantastic voyage to Lilliput in a documentary and scientific way. Swift uses this methodical and objective description throughout the book to enhance his satire with the appearance of reliability on the part of Gulliver, humor, and irony. At the beginning of chapter one, Swift describes Gulliver's background and focuses on his education as if to bring reliability to his character. Swift writes, "He sent me to Emanuel-College in Cam
Swift, however, maintains his scientific way of describing the voyage. Gulliver describes his encounter with the Lilliputians, "I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness: at length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and wrench out the pegs that fastened my left arm to the ground. bridge, at fourteen years old, where I resided three years, and applied my self close to my studies. 13) After the reader is shown evidence to base the opinion of Gulliver being a reliable source, Swift goes on to tell the reader a fantastic and ridiculous story. 49) The fact that Gulliver could easily destroy the entire race of Lilliputians by doing nothing more than taking a stroll and that Gulliver still takes these articles seriously is ironic. 15) The fact that Gulliver is so calmly and precisely describing an encounter with a race of people smaller than his finger is humorous. "Most might emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs, (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe: monarch of all monarchs: taller than the sons of men. Swift uses serious, objective and scientific description in Gulliver's Travels to build upon his satire while adding irony and humor.
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