Thursday, June 3, 2010

It was really entertaining to re-watch Gulliver's Travel as it embarked me to the fantasied 'imperfect' worlds. I was awed by the great portray of modern society through this seemingly children novel. The lilliputians are ignorant to the eyes of Gulliver for fighting against its enemy with no clear reasons, yet he himself is regarded ignorant to the brobdingnag for the silly society he have compared to brobdingnag. There, it was almost like an utopia where everybody do their part and take their shares, sharing almost everything. It is govern by a royal family which harbor the citizens' interest rather than greed and supremacy. This much be the closest society to ideal society. Gulliver is expelled trying to introduce gunpowder to them. Then the idea of living forever is addressed in the world of Struldbruggs, where it is a torture rather than a blessing. The climax of the whole story, in my point of view, is when Gulliver meets the Houyhnhnms. These are flying horses which did everyhing for a reason, such that they marry for heritage, thus they were not bothered by the lost of its spouse therefore showed no depression at all. Yet they still respected them to give them proper burials. They do not have the word 'lie' in their dictionary and diamonds were just rocks to them. In contrast, there were yahoos there shaped just like humans, greedy and scandalous, which Gulliver soon realised that humans were similar to them in terms of behavior and appearance. He ended up misanthrope.

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