GULLIVERS TRAVELS PART 3 A SATIRE ON TRAVEL

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS PART 3 – A SATIRE ON TRAVEL ACCOUNTS

CHAPTER 1 • Taken by Pirates (the worst things that could happen) • Dutch • Flying Island [disorienting]

CHAPTER 2 • People who are so into music and math their bodies have changed • La Puta (Spanish for “lady of the evening”) an extreme statement on those who are interested in the physical world • King and Court is another parody of King George I (KG 1 was a patron of music & science, but knew nothing about them) • Flying Island (people have their head in the clouds) • How do these people treat women?

CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 • Commentary on the scientific community (how scientific papers are written) • The wisdom of those outside of the system (women, tradesmen, flappers, & court-pages) • Lindlino = Dublin (insurrection of the Irish) • Munodi = tired of the world

CHAPTER 5 • Satire on the scientific experiments that were going on at the time (late 18 th century had a lot of advances in science, early 18 th century wasn’t that great) • Finding original food from poop (why does it come back to poop? ) • Discern paint color from smell and feeling/overly complicated agricultural work/new clock that didn’t work/wind up the bum (dog died!) • Ends with an experiment that conclusively shows students don’t learn through osmosis or digestion

CHAPTER 6 • [language change] • Chimaeras –(n. ) monstrous fish • Peccant – (adj. ) offending or diseased or disease causing • Picture of a “wise-fool” (sophomore) • Tax system is different between men and women. Highest taxed are the beautiful; standards that aren’t taxed are different between the two. Societal expectations are different for the two genders • Legislative system is set up where people aren’t responsible – when things go wrong citizens blame fate versus a person

CHAPTER VIII • Glubbdubdrib [revisionist history] • Land of ghosts • Homer is traditionally accepted as being blind • People are there but not really there • Statement on History? • Ghosts come to discuss their lives (what happened when they were alive) • [travel to Greece, Rome, Egypt, Istanbul] • Specific commentary on genetics [this book was written about 100 years before Mendel] • Distortion of people throughout time & justice system (good people are framed as bad; bad people are considered good) • Perception of writers’ changes readers’ opinions • Conclusion that people are formed by their total diet [food, thoughts, way one approaches life]

CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X • Maldonada • Luggnagg • Licking the floor in front of the king • Can be a form of execution • The changing spot [standards of beauty] • Pre-occupation with mouths • The idea of living in a vacation spot • Struldbrugg • Making fun of stages of life • Midlife crisis, 80 -year-olds can’t buy property, 90 -year-olds can’t taste • Generation gap lends itself to the inability to communicate

CHAPTER X 1 • Managed to get to Japan [not a lot of information on Japan] • Description of the island does not align with the actual port that was available to the Dutch • Ends with making fun of the Dutch [look at chapter 1] • Last sentence: arrives at 2 p. m. his wife and family are in good health