tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post7211011562627650218..comments2022-04-07T10:37:46.850-05:00Comments on English 208b: The Impossible, Perverse and Strange: Kind of Obvious?Dahlia Porterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-2918364370090489632010-02-05T20:50:50.005-06:002010-02-05T20:50:50.005-06:00The success/value of this novel does not come excl...The success/value of this novel does not come exclusively from the obvious social commentaries it provides. One thing that makes Gulliver's Travel a classic is that the themes can resonate both in the time it was written and even today. He is portraying truths about the human experience. Kathryn provides a good example of this when she discusses the objectification of the human person.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01927226464553012535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8246797287811539521.post-84826639765385879212010-02-04T08:51:16.673-06:002010-02-04T08:51:16.673-06:00I agree, Alec, there are some instances where the ...I agree, Alec, there are some instances where the satire is obvious (see especially Gulliver's panegyric on his country and the King of Brobdingnag's response on p. 116-120). However, I think the satire gets a bit more complicated once we begin to question how it is conveyed, and more particularly the reliability of the narrator. Wile Gulliver appears, as Sarah suggests, like a detached observer in part 1, and the Lilliputians serve as the object of satire, in part II Gulliver himself has become the satiric object. Does this flip suggest complications for some of the more obvious satirical moments?Dahlia Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09174548009168267294noreply@blogger.com