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Posts tagged "Gulliver’s Travels"

Comparison of the Use of Irony and Satire in “A Modest Proposal” and “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift

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The Themes of Claustrophobia and Guilt in “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka

   “The Metamorphosis” by Kafka presents readers with an intensely claustrophobic and absurd premise featuring a protagonist that is so used to living like an insect and so consumed with guilt that these elements of his life finally take over and lead  →

A Realistic Utopia in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swifts

Aside from the more overt satire on English society, much of “Gulliver’s Travels” is devoted to exploring potential utopias. Although there are obvious examples of utopias in the text, most notably represented by the Houyhnhnms, many do not seem realistically  →