Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift :: English Literature

Gullivers Travels by Jonathan quickJonathan nimble wrote Gullivers Travels in the 1720s, he wrote it ina different style to modern-day authors because it was more normal inthose days to do so for example, he use more pompous and archaic run-in, longer curses and longer paragraphs Swift also used a lotof Satire and imaginary news programs in his book these made it moreinteresting and more believable. forthwith his writing might soundstrange to some flock. I befool been looking closely at the satire and style inchapter 5some of Gullivers Travels and will comment on how he usedthem and what his intended nitty-gritty was.In chapter five Swift uses archaic language such as, Viceroy, whenhe wrote this I think he was just writing what came natur every(prenominal)y to him,he didnt desire an proceeds to be created on the reader other than whatthe word meant nowadays the archaic words he uses could create theeffect of ennui or confusion, because the reader might not know whatthe w ords mean. any(prenominal) of the words Swift uses are formal and pompous an example of geniusof 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 educated 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 there are a lot of long paragraphs longer than youwould normally find in a book today. These can make the book hard forsome people to read and it can also make the reader forget what source of the paragraph was before they finish it however somemodern books wee-wee long paragraphs as well, (I read a book recently andit had stacks of long paragraphs which made the story very hard to keep booster cable of and understand). I dont think Swift intended to confuse 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 h ad 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 legitimate no intelligence of me, all intercourse between thetwo empires having been stringently 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