Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift· First published 1726 under pseudonym of Lemual Gulliver
· Considered Swift’s masterpiece
· Instantly successful
· Four voyages of Lemeul Gulliver, a surgeon
· In part satire of English politics of the time
· Universal satire: things keep getting worse
· Lilliputians: humankinds excessive pride in its own puny existence
· Brobdingnagians: dimension of human existence up close
· Laputans: folly of theoretical knowledge which has no use
· Houyhnhnms: ideal of rational existence
· Yahoos: human beings in their basest form
· Effect on modern language culture, music, theatre, etc.
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Dawn, I really like your Gulliver collage. The only suggestion I have, is that you could have used the text tool in Picasa to add descriptive information over each image, although that's probably not necessary, since most of the images are pretty self-explanatory.
Good job on this assignment.
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