Lemuel Gulliver relates his travels about various singular countries and his encounters with their inhabitants. He travels to Lilliput, a land filled with tiny people, to Brobdingnap, a land of giants, to Laputa, a land in the sky & to Houyhnhnms, a land where horses rule man (aka Yahoos). By the end of his travels, Gulliver despises mankind (whom he calls Yahoos) and can barely live with his family.
Initially, I was charmed by the creativity and humor. By the end I was ready to be finished with the book! A lot of people love this classic . . .so maybe I need to reread it at a later time.
A satire that includes every type of person . . .and finally, the human race as a whole.
To be honest I was surprised to encounter the below "warnings" in this classic book.
Points to discuss/warnings: a description of a child nursing the giant's humongous breast, maids of honor in Brobdingnap would have Gulliver strip naked and lay upon their breasts, these same maids would undress and dress in front of him, one maid had him sit astride one of her nipples, in Laputa the women often have affairs with men from other lands, one woman from Laputa returned to her physically abusive lover, to cure an illness, they insert a pair of bellows eight inches up the anus, read (by tasting, touching, smelling) feces to make decisions, the words whore, pimp, sodomity and incest are mentioned, in Houyhnhnm, a eleven-year-old girl (aka Yahoo) aggressively "goes after" him when he is bathing naked.
-I own this book.
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