A Feminist Analysis on the Book Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift

The purpose of this essay is to analyze Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels from feminist perspective. The feminist vision of Gulliver's Travels Medinat begins the discussion of anti-feminism of the author, pointing out that Gulliver's Travels has been from the beginning, judged as a work of a misogynist character. These critics believe that the intense scenes of rabid antagonism towards women are among the most memorable of the book and much of the comedy present in the work occurs at the expense of women. Swift is undeniably explicit when cataloging his contempt for women (Samuel, 111-125).

It may seem that this text could easily be a feminist reading in general and a particular feminist critique; however this is not the case. Gulliver's Travels in fact seems to resist such a reading in part because the property of Gulliver ambiguity causes difficulties in locating satirical intentions. At this point another of the issues raised is whether the work (or possibly the author) is misogynistic or anti-feminist and focused on gender as a literary category and how the literary attitudes are expressed through this.

From this perspective, feminist, misogyny is not in the nature of a particular author or text but rather is in a group of discourses circulating within the culture. It is about analyzing the awareness of one's Gulliver, a sissy and victim consciousness on one side (caoaz to disrupt traditional gender relations and new alternative position during the course of travel) and an awareness of the other failed. The result is a social rejection towards the female in the fourth (William, 160-89).

We can see in Gulliver's Travels as the conception of the female varies depending on the part of the book in which we live. Gender relations change over the four parts of the book as Gulliver defines the meaning and appearance of the sexes of the countries he visits. In the first and second women is associated with concepts as mother or nation as the patriotism betrayed subject of man's attitudes toward women. However, if motherhood is the prevailing concept in the first two parts, a prostitute is the concept that prevails in the third. The island of Laputa obviously has a sexual meaning that maternal in partnership with the Spanish word "whore" on the nation's fourth visit Gulliver summarizes male behavior, while the servant class, the Yahoos appear effeminate. Shown here also its complete rejection of women by reinforcing traditional hierarchies man / woman. As a small conclusion is that Gulliver's Travels is not completely anti-feminist. Perhaps most racist (xenophobic) not anti-feminist, in other words the anti-feminism is reflected in the work may be the source through which racism is expressed throughout the culture (Michael, 52-71). Now let us see practical examples of what we just discussed, the treatment that makes women Gulliver throughout the play:

PART ONE

"I Heard the word Burglum REPEATED incessantly: several of the Emperor's Court, making Their Way Through the croud, intreated me to come Immediately to the Palace … Which Had So Many Ages cost in erecting, ...