The very Gulliver, a brief summary. "Gulliver's Journey" is waiting for the Master

Dear reader! I invite you to digress from the manner of writing peculiar to the XVIII century and after me to concentrate on the main ideas of the great novel. After reading the article, you will understand how timely for England in the XVIII century Jonathan Swift created "Gulliver's Travel"! The summary of the novel plunges us into the four wanderings of the British Odyssey - Lemuel Gulliver, at first a land surgeon, then the brave captain of the Sailors of the Seas.

Consider the first part of the novel, it is deeply public. The shipwrecked Gulliver becomes a captive of the Lilliputians. The author subtly ridicules the contrariness of the conceptual inter-party contradictions of Lilliput: about the height of the heels, from which side to break the egg. The summary of the story "The Travel of Gulliver" in artistic form shows uselessness of the bipartisan puppet confrontation of the bourgeois. Ironically, the "humanity" of the democratic society of the country of shorties is described. By capturing the enemy fleet with the help of "Man-Mountain", the Lilliputians then decide to kill him. And the most humane among the dwarfs - Reldressel, secretary for secret affairs, offers "just" to poke out Gulliver's eyes so that his physical strength and further could serve society. (Discarding the bright colors of the narrative of the true master, for the first part of the novel we get just such a brief summary.) "Gulliver's Journey" denounces the principle of the modern Swift of British society - "the state is above all". The writer tears off the masks, clearly demonstrates that this leads to cruelty, injustice in relation to the common man. The doctor of theology shows how a shapeless crowd of puny dwarfs, united by an inhuman state idea, turns into a monster. Lemuel, taking advantage of the floating British sailboat, escapes from this state of small executioners.

In the second part of the novel, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdingning, the land of giants. It would seem that the situation has simply changed radically, and even the naive reader will be able to predict its brief content for the second part of the novel. "Gulliver's Travel", however, with his further plot refutes this idea. The talent of the great Irishman here also finds fresh colors for his palette. The writer shows how a bureaucratic huge state relates to the needs and requirements of a simple person who is experiencing immediate needs. He is looked at, talked to like a monkey, but all his aspirations come up against the "ingenuous naivety of misunderstanding" of the giants. (What magnificent words the writer has found!) A thoughtful reader understands that the "good mine" of giants is only evidence of a "bad game", that is, the failure of the arrangement of a society of thick-skinned rulers. In real life, behind such a mask of power-hungry are greed, hypocrisy, ambition, envy, voluptuousness. The last words were not invented by the author of the article, they are from the review of Swift himself, who stressed that the second part "cast the king in extreme amazement."

In the third part, Lamuel arrives at the island that flies - Laputu. This, perhaps, is the brightest part of the novel by Jonathan Swift. This is a brilliant foresight of the virtuality of a society of the future, immersed in "news and politics." Indeed, in the state arrangement of Laputu, the characteristic features of the society of the 21st century stand out, it is not difficult to notice, even after briefly reading the summary. The "Gulliver's Journey" in more detailed reading strikes a description of the profession of "clapper" people (in our understanding of advertising agents) that attract the public's attention to things put up for sale. There is one more category of people on the island that you can easily recognize. These are projectors (we call these "creatives"). Having learned nothing where, they, having arrived and having seen that somewhere on the island something is in order, is functioning, begin this "something" to change, optimize, bringing it to the point of absurdity. As it is familiar to workers of modern corporations! How often do you want to drive such pests into three necks!

The fourth and final part of the Gulliver's Odyssey sends us to the land of noble horses, Houyhnhnms, as they call themselves. They are serviced by humanoid beings echoes. Do not you think, readers, that the allegory is even this summary? "Gulliver's Travel" in his fourth part is a call to people not to maim themselves with civilization, to carefully preserve the best qualities given to a person by nature: modesty, love, friendship, loyalty. It is significant that Lemuel Gulliver himself, who was initially granted a credit of trust by offering housing in his own country, does not stand the "examination for humanity". He is cast out, being qualified by the court of horses as an echo.

Rector of the Dublin Cathedral of St. Patrick, the doctor of theology Jonathan Swift was not a rebel, but he was a citizen with a big heart for the whole of society. About these people say that they are the conscience of the nation. Swift wrote his great book at the turn of the XVII century, breaking the framework of traditional, canonical literature. Romance-fiction, romance-travel, romance-pamphlet, full of satire on the existing foundations - it was a real "bomb", a sensation that had an impact on the entire English society of the XVIII century. Hopefully, the best screen version of "Gulliver" - in the future, that she expects her Master, just as "Munchausen" waited for Oleg Yankovsky.