Study of Gulliver's Travels

Of all his writings, this novel shows Swift’s merits of his mind. His extraordinary queft of expression. It is written in a very strange language. It is understandable nowadays, but not then. This novel shows the tendency of the XVIIIth century to see truth in relative terms. Is this Swift’s opinion that truth is relative? We have to face that truth is quite relative in the novel. We have Gulliver as a giant …showed first 75 words of 2548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2548 total…that he must know more than the other people. Then we have an explanation of the Augustan Age. Augustus related to anti-belicism (325). This is very interesting. On Page 326, we have the idea of the Empire and his criticism. After this, we have his becoming human. The most outstanding topic of the whole book: his attack on pride. Pride is the worst of his vices. All his books are on attack on pride (the four books).