Gulliver's Travels explained: Swift's misanthropic creation or reality?
Gulliver's Travels, a famous story written by Jonathan Swift, is considered by many to be a funny tale for children. But did you know that it's often surrounded by such remarks as misanthropy, philosophy, satire, politics, grotesque?.. You may wonder what this amusive story can have in common with all that?! But the truth is, Gulliver's Travels is full of hidden meanings and misanthropic (at first glance) statements.
In this video, I'm inviting you to dive into this unprecedented literary masterpiece and understand what Jonathan Swift hid in his Gulliver's Travels.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Prologue
1:36 - Swift + creation of Gulliver's Travels
10:34 - Society and politics at the time
16:28 - Gulliver's Travels: main idea + hidden meanings
17:16 - Lilliput
22:29 - Brobdingnag
24:21 - Laputa
28:25 - Houyhnhnm
32:45 - Epilogue
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Very interesting as always! This is a book I've wanted to read for a while and having the context is really helpful :)
@LanguageEasy
8 ай бұрын
Thank you, glad you liked it! Now you'll read the Travels looking at it from an absolutely different side. Enjoy the book!
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@LanguageEasy
8 ай бұрын
Thank you 🤗 welcome!
Очень познавательно 👍. Это видео побудило перечитать роман. Спасибо огромное❤
@LanguageEasy
8 ай бұрын
Обязательно к прочтению ✨📚
Interesting, so this is where the word Yahoos (idiots) came from.
@LanguageEasy
8 ай бұрын
Exactly! It was Swift who coined it
Interesting and informative, though I think Swift's situation as an Anglo-Irish commentator and satirist needs a little more emphasis. The Catholics of Ireland were expropriated, suppressed and marginalised from the time Swift was a young man in Dublin, and although he was "English" compared to Gaelic or Irish, he sympathised with the plight of the excluded hugely. In 1729 he wrote A Modest Proposal mocking the English governments we-don't-care attitude to anyone of Irish Catholic background... the long title of which was "A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick" suggesting parents should eat their children to prevent them becoming a burden on the state.
@LanguageEasy
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking your time and adding more useful information!
... infatuating