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Character Sketch of Gulliver

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Added on  2020-02-19

Character Sketch of Gulliver

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Running head: CHARACTER SKETCH OF GULLIVERCHARACTER SKETCH OF GULLIVERName of StudentName of UniversityAuthor Note
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1CHARACTER SKETCH OF GULLIVERA man`s personality and his motif has a lot of impact on his behavior. Man`s natureand his way of reacting is inclusive of his personality and emotions. To bring this out moreclearly the character of Gulliver in the famous novel by Jonathan Swift has been taken intoaccount. Jonathan Swift took a man as his object to portray the faults of the society. Jonathan Swift used the means of satire in his play to bring out the follies of men inhis novel (Ross, 2013). He composed the character of Gulliver who had variety of emotionsin him but the audience got to know about his emotions only when he faced differentsituations in different places. Gulliver loved adventure and because of this, he travelled in allthe places. In the novel the readers found him in the land of Lilliput at first, then at the land ofthe giants, then in the land of Laputa and finally in the land of Houghnhnms and the Yahoos(Mackie, 2014). In the land of Lilliput Gulliver explores the weaknesses of the politicians and realizesthe abstract form of it. The abstract form of government is the main exploration of Gulliver(Wilding, 2014).. In the land of the giants, Gulliver realizes that man is nothing but merepuppets in the hands of government. Everybody was superior to him in the land of giants andeveryone there harassed him, starting from an insect to a human. The reason of faith andreligion came up when Gulliver visited the land of Laputa. As the background of the novelwas set up in the seventeenth to eighteenth century had some characteristic trait of thatparticular period. Humans rejected the Christian beliefs and denied to follow it blindly. In theland of Laputa Gulliver encountered the domination of man. The rational thinking and thescientific innovation led man to think in this manner. In the land of the Yahoos Gulliverencountered his animal instinct. He started hating human because of their lack of reasoningpower (Williams, 2013)..
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