Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift :: English Literature

Gullivers Travels by Jonathan agileJonathan Swift wrote Gullivers Travels in the 1720s, he wrote it ina assorted flare to modern authors because it was more normal inthose days to do so for subject, he apply more pontifical and archaicwords, hourlong sentences and longer paragraphs Swift also used a lotof mockery and imaginary words in his tidings these made it more raise and more believable. Nowadays his physical composition might soundstrange to nearly people. I have been looking closely at the satire and style inchapter five of Gullivers Travels and will comment on how he usedthem and what his intended effect was.In chapter five Swift uses archaic style such as, Viceroy, whenhe wrote this I think he was just writing what came naturally to him,he didnt desire an effect to be cookd on the referee other than whatthe word meant nowadays the archaic words he uses could create theeffect of boredom or confusion, because the commentator might not bash whatthe words mean.So me of the words Swift uses are formal and pompous an example of oneof these words is, Leathern Jerkin, This is a posh word for aleather coat, its effect on the reader is it shows them that Gulliveris a well enlightened man who has a wide vocabulary. I believe that thiswas swifts intention. This is the affect as it had on me as a reader.In the whole book at that place are a lot of long paragraphs longer than youwould normally disclose in a book today. These can make the book impenetrable for any(prenominal) people to read and it can also make the reader forget whatbeginning of the paragraph was before they finish it however somemodern books have long paragraphs as well, (I read a book recently andit had lots of long paragraphs which made the story precise knotty to keeptrack of and understand). I dont think Swift intended to set back hisreaders but he might have confused some of them.Swift also used very long sentences throughout this novel an exampleof one from chapter five is , I had not yet seen it, and upon thisnotice of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side ofthe coast, for fear of being discovered by some of the enemys ships,who had received no intelligence of me, all intercourse amongst thetwo empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon painof death, and an embargo laid by our Emperor upon all vesselswhatsoever. As you can see that is a very long sentence that probably