Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver´s Travels

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In dem vorliegenden Auszug handelt es sich um eine Zusammenfassung und Interpretation des Buches „Gulliver's Travels“ von Jonathan Swift. Es wird etwas über den Autor und seine Herkunft sowie über die Hauptfigur des Buches, Lemuel Gulliver, erzählt. Gulliver wird auf seiner Reise in verschiedene Länder geschickt und erlebt viele Abenteuer. In Lilliput erlebt er die satirische Darstellung der englischen Politik, in Brobdingnag wird die Gesellschaft Großbritanniens auf die Schippe genommen und in Laputa geht es um die Wissenschaft und die Kontrolle einer Kolonie. In Houyhnhnm wird schließlich das menschliche Verhalten anhand einer Pferdegesellschaft aufgezeigt. Das Buch ist ein satirisches Meisterwerk und zeigt die menschliche Natur als unvollkommen. Der Autor bringt mit viel Wortwitz den Leser zum Lachen und Nachdenken. Der Auszug ist sehr informativ und bietet eine gute Zusammenfassung des Buches.
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Gulliver s Travels: by Johnathan Swift Something about the author: Johnathan Swift, the greatest Irish satirist, was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667. Swifts father, an English lawyer, died while his wife was pregnant with Jonathan. Right after Jonathan was born his mother left him. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and he worked halfheartedly on a masters degree, but left to join the Glorious Revolution. Shortly afterwards he entered the church as a way of earning a living, and he quickly became an ambitious and influential clergyman. For all his activism and close relations with public figures, we know surprisingly little about the private Swift. No one even knows if Swift ever married. On his frequent trips to England, he became deeply involved in politics and he started out as a Whig. In 1710 he went over to the Torries and became Dean of deans of St. Patricks Cathedral in Dublin. In 1726 Gulliver s Travels was publishd anonymously, because he often attacked prominent political figures. While most readers were trying like mad to find out who the author was, Swifts close friends had great fun keeping the secret. In Swift s last years he suffered from progressive mental disease and he died in 1745. Summary: Gullivers Travels is the tale of Lemuel Gulliver as he voyages to the strange lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, the kingdom of Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms. On his first voyage Gulliver is shipwrecked. He comes to Lilliput, a land where all people ...
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