Gulliver's Travels begins in the form of a letter, and all the implications this holds are held up by a line that says that these are not exactly correct and have been edited for content somehow, whcih gives the feeling that the author wants the reader to try to imagine what really happened. The pace is very brisk and I must admit a little confusing, especially as it uses an older version of english. The narrator refers at length to Yahoos, whom he seems to despise, it seems to refer to a kind of person, which must be stupid and brutish and impulsive, as he compares them to animals and refers to his book, which are of course the following chapters. He also says he now lives on an island. In chapter on the narrator introduces his family. The style is now far easier to follow. He is a surgeon, which is to say a doctor and Swift discreetly uses this to make fun of doctors, by showing how favoritism and mal practice run their trade. Swift also ironically makes the shipwreck happen after many voyages by the narrator, and only when he is now weary of travel and wanting to go home, in a parallel to Ulysses/Odysseus. I thinkt he tiny people on the island are a warning that things that seem little or insignificant can kick up a big mess and a lot of pain. It is also alot about entrapment, and how weighted down by our problems and by what society dictates (for example he does not kill the little men because he is bound by the laws of hospitality). It speaks about how easily oour freedom is taken from us, which is why I chose a trapped bird as my illustration:
As I said in class text.
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