Gulliver’s Travels: Summary of Questions and Answers

Gulliver’s Travels: Q&A

Lilliput

How does Gulliver end up stranded in Lilliput?
A – He survives a shipwreck.

How do the Lilliputians offer Gulliver something to drink?
D – They roll out barrels of wine.

How does Gulliver earn the title of Nardac in Lilliput?
A – By capturing the Blefuscudian fleet.

Instead of killing him outright, the Lilliputians decide on which of the following punishments for Gulliver?
A – Blinding him and slowly starving him to death.

What is the line of doctrine over which the

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Frankenstein: Key Themes and Influences

Scientific Influences on Frankenstein

Humphry Davy, Erasmus Darwin, and Luigi Galvani, along with two of their disciples (Adam Walker and P.B. Shelley), were crucial to Mary Shelley’s understanding of science and the scientific enterprise. As seen in the novel, Victor Frankenstein is inspired by the use of electricity to give life to a person. He was influenced by older philosophers such as Agrippa and Magnus.

Narrative Structure of Frankenstein

Frankenstein is an epistolary narrative with three

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Bécquer’s Rhymes: Analysis of Key Themes and Metrics

Bécquer’s Rhymes: Analysis

Rima II

Abstract: Abstract poetry means that you are born but then do not know what the future holds, where you will go, what you will do, or what will happen.

Theme: Melancholy.

Metric: There are 20 verses. The lines are assonant pairs, each consisting of eight-syllable verses of minor art. It is a romance.

Rima VII

Summary: The poet sees a room in which there is a dusty harp not being used and thinks of those strings waiting to be played as the talent of people who are inside

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Children’s Literature: History, Genres & Benefits

The Golden Age of Children’s Literature (1863-1911)

The Golden Age of Children’s Literature, spanning from 1863 to 1911, marked a significant shift in how childhood was perceived. Children’s books became more respectful, emphasizing enjoyment and imagination over pure instruction. Writers moved away from didacticism and moralizing, focusing instead on entertainment and sparking children’s imaginations.

Fairy Tales and the Rise of Fantasy

The renaissance of traditional fairy tales went hand-in-hand

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Symbolism in the Novel: Mirrors, Hats, and More

Mirrors

The mirror is a recurring symbol that appears multiple times in the novel. It supports the notion of the protagonist’s splitting, who, finding himself in the mirror, moves away from it and returns to the past.

  • The mirror serves as a bridge or time warp to the past.
  • It moves to the voice of conscience.
  • It appears in several chapters throughout the novel.
  • It serves to focus and reconstruct the protagonist’s past; that is, to delve into his memories of childhood, adolescence, and his history.

Black

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Gulliver’s Travels: Satire, Society, and Swift

In Gulliver’s Travels, humanity is attacked, or criticized, from at least three different angles, and the implied character of Gulliver himself necessarily changes somewhat in the process. In Part IV, he conceives a horror of the human race which is not apparent, or only intermittently apparent, in the earlier books, and changes into a sort of unreligious anchorite whose one desire is to live in some desolate spot where he can devote himself to meditating on the goodness of the Houyhnhnms. However,

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