Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver’s Travels  – Ever since its publication in 1726, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels has been perennial favourite. It was not written to woo and entertain. It was indictment, and it was most popular among those who were indicted – that is politicians, scientists, philosophers, and Englishmen in general. Swift was roasting mankind and they were eager for the banquet. Yet the Travels appeals to the child in all of us for its novelty and adventure. The artiрĀ ̀쿏㳰ƕ芄the work readily evokes in us what Coleridge called ‘‘a willing suspension of disbelief’’. The present critical study tries to assess and assimilate the various interpretations of Gulliver’s Travels. It examines and analyses the text from all angles, particularly from the viewpoint of students in Indian and abroad Universities for meeting the requirements of examinations at all levels