"gulliver's travels" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

Gulliver isn't the only one to have had a long journey. So have we.

^^^^^^^^^^GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: GLOSSARY

ALLEGORY A story in which characters, situations, and places have a significance beyond what they are themselves; characters, situations, and places that represent something or someone else; the aim of allegory is to teach or edify.

BALNIBARBI An island ruled by the king of Laputa. Found in Part III.

BLEFUSCU Lilliput's enemy. Blefuscu is an allegorical representation of France. Occurs in Part I.

BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN (1678-1751) Tory leader.

BROBDINGNAG Land of the giants visited by Gulliver in Part II.

BROBDINGNAGIANS Inhabitants of Brobdingnag.

GEORGE I Hanoverian king of England 1714-27; favored the Whigs. Satirized by Swift in Part I, allegorized by the Lilliputian emperor.

GLUBBDUBDRIB Island of Sorcerers visited by Gulliver in Part III.

HOUYHNHNMS Totally rational horses idealized by Gulliver in Part IV.

IRONY A device in which the meaning of a statement or action is opposite to that which is presented.

LAPUTA Flying island encountered by Gulliver in Part III. It is inhabited by foolish, wildly impractical visionaries.

LILLIPUT Land visited by Gulliver in Part I; its inhabitants are six inches high.

LILLIPUTIANS Inhabitants of the land of Lilliput.

LINDALINO City that rebelled against Laputa; allegory for Dublin rebelling against England.

LUGGNAGG Island Gulliver visits in Part III, home of the Struldbrugs, who are immortal.

MISANTHROPE One who hates and/or avoids other people. Swift was accused of misanthropy; Gulliver actually is a misanthrope by the novel's end.

NARDAC Tide of honor bestowed by the Lilliputian emperor on Gulliver after he seizes the Blefuscudian Fleet.

OXFORD, EARL OF Robert Harley, Tory leader eventually ousted by Bolingbroke in 1714.

QUEEN ANNE English queen 1702-14; last of the Stuart monarchs, favored the Tories.

SATIRE A mocking attack against vices, stupidities, follies, with an aim to educate or edify.

STRULDBRUGS A race of immortals who live in Luggnagg, found in Part III.

TORIES One of two rival political parties in England. The Tories tended in Swift's time to support more wholeheartedly the Church of England, to support the monarchy in favor of the newer, merchant classes, and to be generally more conservative than the Whigs. Swift was a Tory from 1710 on.

WALPOLE, SIR ROBERT (1676-1745) Whig prime minister 1715-17 and 1721-42. Swift's enemy.