Gulliver's travels

Question 1

themes
(gullivers travels)

Answer 1

The abusive power

Cerebral vs Real world

Society vs individual

Perspective

Question 2

How does the theme The abusive power come forward in Gulliver’s Travells?

Answer 2

=> king of lugnag, Gulliver has to lick the floor, Houyhnhnms exploit the yahoos etc.

Question 3

How does the theme Cerebral vs Real world come forward in Gulliver’s Travells?

Answer 3

=> take practicalicy to an extreme or are very abstract thinkers, laputans are very scientificly advanced but cannot make clothes. The houynhmhns are to rational and miss out on the emotionall experiences of live, mis out of love. What is knowledge without actions

Question 4

How does the theme Society vs individual come forward in Gulliver’s Travells?

Answer 4

=> society puts rules on the people

Question 5

How does the theme Perspective come forward in Gulliver’s Travells?

Answer 5

=> nothing is objective, everything is through the lens of the people Gulliver meets.

Question 6

Symbols
(gullivers travels)

Answer 6

Lilliputians

Brobdingnagians

Laputans

Houyhnhnms

Yahoos

Question 7

What do the Lilliputians symbolise in Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 7

=> represents the human urge to think they are sooo important, but because they are so tiny this shows the error in thinking in that way

Question 8

What do the Brobdingnagians symbolise in Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 8

=> humans have the ability to do extreme good and extreme bad, in the farmers village there goes on extreme kindness and extreme greed.
EXAMPLE: very kind, but then money => imediate sell

Question 9

What do the Laputans symbolise in Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 9

=> resemble the need to seek knowledge without wanting to put it to use, or don’t know how to put it to use.

Question 10

What do the Houyhnhnms symbolise in Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 10

=> resemble the rational thinking, and the benefits of collective living, but also the lack of identity that comes with extreme devotions to rational thinking, hold to much to the rules of their safe and good culture.

Question 11

What do the Yahoos symbolise in Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 11

=> symbolize the lack of rational thought, show how ongoing oppression can drive this loss rational thought, are they violent because they’ve been rejected or all they rejected because they are violent

Question 12

Author
(gullivers travels)

Answer 12

Jonathan Swift, Published during a time of political and social upheaval, Gulliver’s Travels is a masterpiece of political and social satire. Swift’s sharp wit and allegorical storytelling have made the novel a classic that continues to be studied and enjoyed for its multifaceted critique of humanity.

Question 13

published
(gullivers travels)

Answer 13

1726

Question 14

What happends in the first part of Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 14

The first part depict Gulliver’s encounters with tiny Lilliputians, he flees and gets picked up by an English ship

Question 15

What happends in the second part of Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 15

The second part he encounters giant Brobdingnagians, serving as a commentary on human pettiness and arrogance. In an outing to the beach a bird picks up his carrying cart and drops him in the ocean and gets picked up by an English ship

Question 16

What happends in the third part of Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 16

The third part explores the absurdities of scientific pursuits and intellectualism through the floating island of Laputa. And goes to Glubbdupdrip and talks to dead figures of history, gets home via Japan and holland

Question 17

What happends in the fourth and final part of Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 17

In the final part, Gulliver captains his own crew but gets mutinied, and gets dropped off on an island. Thee he encounters the rational and horse-like Houyhnhnms, highlighting Swift’s criticism of human behaviors by presenting an idealized alternative. Ther are also the primitive humans yahoos, he hates his yahoo heritance and vows never to go back to England, but the Houyhnhnms decide that a yahoo cannot live among them.

Question 18

What happends at the very end of Gulliver’s Travels?

Answer 18

He returns home and spends years readjusting to his live among the yahoos, and he prefers the company of horses over the company of his wife

Question 19

Lemuel Gulliver
(gullivers travels)

Answer 19

=> adventurer, surgeon on a ship, taken prisoner by the Lilliputians, becomes a pet to the Brobdingnagians, visits a floating island in the sky named Laputa, and visits, lives with horses named the Houyhnhnm, has learned how bad humans are and doesn’t want to go home, is really good in languages.
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Question 20

Emperor of lilliput
(gullivers travels)

Answer 20

=> treats Gulliver well, expects respect and obedience from everyone, disobedience=a death sentence
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Question 21

Glumdalclitch
(gullivers travels)

Answer 21

=> farm girl, Gulliver’s caretaker, devoted to Gulliver, giant
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Question 22

King of Laputa
(gullivers travels)

Answer 22

=> absorbed with the abstract contemplations of thought, monarch, abuses power
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Question 23

Houyhnhnm master
(gullivers travels)

Answer 23

=> treats Gulliver kindly, is a horse, sees Gulliver as a lesser creature
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Question 24

Governor of Glubbdubdrip
(gullivers travels)

Answer 24

=> mysterious figure, a necromancer (can raise people from the dead to serve him), shows Gulliver hospitality, offers Gulliver to speak with the dead scholars and legends of the past.
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Question 25

in welke vorm is Gullivers travels geschreven?

Answer 25

vanuit het ik-perspectief

Question 26

Struldbruggs
(gullivers travels)

Answer 26

=> onstervelijke wezens in Luggnagg, in het begin leuk leven later ongelukkig
=> symbool voor mensen die niet willen sterven, dat die dom zijn.
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