One of the
things I find very interesting is the way in which Swift makes the reader to be
a participant in the story by making it “real”. There is a mix of fantasy and
reality, and during the whole novel, we feel that the story that Gulliver is
telling us actually happened, as he is all the time addressing to the reader
and talking about things that could happen anywhere.
The first
fact is that Swift signed the book as Lemuel Gulliver and wrote it in first
person. This made difficult not to believe these stories and, moreover, not to
think that Swift and Gulliver are actually the same person. The portraits of
the nations, the accuracy and the use of real places are the devices that Swift
uses in order to make the reader believe his story, his travels.
I have to
say that this is one of my favourite books but, actually, I don’t know if I
would like the story to be true: I do not like most of the creatures depicted
on the travels! And, of course, I would not like to find myself mirrored in a
Yahoo!
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