1.1 Johnathan Swift
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In his GULLIVERS’TRAVELS Swift uses a format of a continually shipwrecked sailor, Gulliver, who discovers the wonderful lands first of the minute Lilliputians , then of the Giants, Brobdignan, the Flying island of Laputa and finally a world ruled by rational horses among whose animals are the vile Yahoos- mankind.
Gulliver’s extraordinary adventures are told by a first person narrator whose point of view and comments allow a multi-level reading and interpretation. It is a biting satire mixed with fantasy inside a moral fable.
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