Gulliver Travel - from my perspectives

One of the finest writing of Jonathan Swift in which he emphasized the human weaknesses and follies.  It is the art of his writing which so beautifully depicts that though we are considered as human beings but in actuality, we are worse than animals.  

He expressed it very excellently and marvellously in the fourth part of Gulliver Travel in which he showed horses to be more civilized than human beings or Yahoos.  

The third part of this novel also expressed that we are just creating troubles for ourselves through inventing new things due to our impracticability.  Here, he talked about the Laputans who live in a floating Island.  

All of the people of that island are particularly philosophers and don't know the ground reality.  He also satirized the present education system which is quite impractical and far from reality.  In the third part of this novel he just wants to say that experience based understanding is better than knowledge-based or idle thinking.  He straightforwardly wants to say here that true knowledge lies in experience-based understanding based on ground reality.  This particular incident ignites my memories of one of my teacher who taught me during my B.Ed. and M.Ed. He always emphasises the concept of pragmatism and most of the teaching methods I am using these days is just his imitation and I imitate him because his way of teaching is based on practical experiences as he always tries to give us reality-based examples during his teaching. It is my belief that whatever I have learnt regarding teaching is due to him.  Dr Pargat Singh Garcha who is not only a source of inspiration for me rather his way of teaching always inspires me to be the teacher like him. So whenever, I read the third part of Gulliver Travel the image of Pargat Sir came in my mind and a silent smile reflects on my face.  

Perhaps it reflects that I am deeply motivated by him during my B.Ed. 

Thus the third part of Gulliver Travel showed that practical knowledge is more useful in comparison to the theoretical knowledge. 

When I shift to the second part of Gulliver Travel then it seems here Swift wants to tell us that we people are becoming completely materialistic as in the second part we have seen Gulliver in the prison of a farmer and later that farmer use him as a source of earning money which straightforwardly puts a question here that we are losing the feeling of empathy, love and compassion.  And the first part of this novel depicts that though we are civilized and great intellectual giants but when we are talking about universal brotherhood and benevolence then we become Lilliputians.  

Here he uses a symbol of lilliputians because he just wants to say that we are completely self-centred just like the king of lilliputians who tried to kill Gulliver when he refused the command of the king not to kill the people of his native island.  

But still, the benevolence and empathy of the king of the native island towards Gulliver reflect that we can improve ourselves as all of us are human beings.

Friends this is my interpretation of the novel Gulliver's Travel.  I hope you like it.

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Silas Marner - A Recluse of Raveloe (a critical analysis)

       One of the greatest Novel written by Mary Ann Evans (also named as George Eliot) reflects that any person can become isolated if he or she will be betrayed by his own loved one.  It also express the psychological needs should be satisfied as Adler a great psychologist said that one live once life just because to get praise and appreciation from the society.  Just like Adler, Jung also emphasized that human mind always seek the satisfaction of once on ego and when it never satisfied or over satisfied then they either become inferior and isolated or seems just like a recluse or become superior and tried to rule others.  Thus both of the situation is harmful for human mind.  If we critically analyzed the novel of George Eliot then we will find out that here she just want to say that it is we who decide how we want to live.  For example in Lantarn yard Silas is one of the reputed person and churchmen but when his epileptic fit was considered as the visitation of devil by his own best friend William Dane then he feel hurt and start thinking how his best friend can think about him just like this.  But latter he forgot it.  It reflects the belief and love of Silas towards his friend William Dane.  But when his own friend Dane took advantage of his epileptic fit and proved Silas as the culprit of killing the Deacon and stealing the Gold of Deacon then he recollects all of his past experience and came to the conclusion how his own best friend back stabbed him just because of Sarah the beloved of Silas.  He later realized that Dane also feel jealous due to the popularity of Silas amongst the people of Lantern Yard.  Thus the whole incident reflects that if we are not aware about our surrounding and became blind toward our own friends then our mind can create an unfavorable situation for us. Similarly when he went to Raveloe he became a recluse and stop talking anyone.  It shows as if he has lost his faith in humanity and God.  Now he spent most of the time in his Loom and did weaving just to substitute his faith with Golden coins.  But again Marner didn't take hold of his mind.  He is doing whatever the circumstance are forced to do.  That's why again he was looted by Dunstan Cass and now again he found himself in the darkness.  The biggest mistake which he has done that he tried to substitute the human love with the love of Gold which is not love rather lust.  He realized the warmness of love when he met Eppie first time in his cottage.  It is Eppie who helped Silas to take hold of his mind and later Dolly helps him to regain his faith in humanity and God.  
     Thus from the above points I can conclude that it is not the circumstances which change the human nature rather it is the human nature which change the circumstances.
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SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE (1985) - JENNY AGUTTER