The Relevance of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Essay -- Gulliver

The Relevance of Jonathan bustlings Gullivers Travels Having read Jonathan fleets brisk, Gullivers Travels, in high school, I found it an exciting task to reread this great work from a slightly older, more than experienced outlook. I was pleasantly surprised to begin that time had greatly changed the way I viewed this novel. Upon first reading the novel I incur that I viewed the book in a more childlike matter, scoffing at his ideas of world politics and not misgiving much of his satire. I was told in my high school class that agile wrote Gullivers Travels as a satire of English politics. Back then, I assumed that he himself must have been an Englishman and snarl the need to scoff the politics of his country. Four years later, I lift out that Swift was in fact an Irishman, which entirely changed the meaning of the satire for me. It is matchless affair when a person writes a satire about the politics of ones testify country, as in the book, Primary Colors, which made ch eer of the Clinton establishment in the White House. However, in my opinion, it is of greater insult when it comes from an outsider, a foreigner, who may have a deeper reason for insulting the English nation, and I feel that in this case it might be because of the long felt oppression of Ireland by England. Coming into English 366, I honestly never knew very much about the oppression of Ireland from England. I knew that there had eternally been trouble between the two countries, but I never knew of the pie-eyed feelings that have been expressed about England in many Irish work of literature. After reading works from this course I began to see Swifts emphasis on politics, his use of gross humor and his ideas of allowance into orderliness in both the excerpt found ... ...ire has helped me to examine my own world for what it really is and I am now in the blank space of Gulliver in trying to find out where I fit in. I will graduate soon and am supposed to find my bunk in societ y. I will have to start my own journeys to find a outer space where I can fit in and feel as if I am doing a service to making our society better. By becoming a teacher, I plan to try to confer about change to our society, but I know that it may be an impossible task. I will have to view my life from inside myself and from others point of view, and try to see where I can go from there. I hope that I will not go crazy in my search as poor Gulliver did, and that I can find my place in our less-then-perfect society. Works Cited Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels, (Penquin Books, 2001). Colm Toibin, The penguin book of Irish fiction, (Penguin Books, 1999).