Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift :: English Literature

Gullivers Travels by Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift wrote Gullivers Travels in the 1720s, he wrote it ina different style to modern authors because it was more form inthose days to do so for example, he employ more pompous and archaic lecture, prolonged sentences and longer paragraphs Swift also used a lotof Satire and imaginary words in his set aside these made it moreinteresting and more believable. Nowadays his writing might sound extraneous to some people. I have been looking closely at the satire and style inchapter quin of Gullivers Travels and will comment on how he usedthem and what his intended effect was.In chapter five Swift uses archaic language such as, Viceroy, whenhe wrote this I think he was just writing what came of course to him,he didnt desire an effect to be created on the reader other than whatthe word meant nowadays the archaic words he uses could create theeffect of tediousness or confusion, because the reader might not know whatthe words mean.Some of the w ords Swift uses are formal and pompous an example of oneof these words is, Leathern Jerkin, This is a posh word for aleather coat, its effect on the reader is it shows them that Gulliveris a well educated man who has a wide vocabulary. I believe that thiswas swifts intention. This is the affect as it had on me as a reader.In the whole book there are a lot of long paragraphs longer than youwould normally find in a book today. These poop pass on the book hard forsome people to read and it can also make the reader forget whatbeginning of the paragraph was before they finish it however somemodern books have long paragraphs as well, (I read a book recently andit had lots of long paragraphs which made the story very hard to keeptrack of and understand). I dont think Swift intended to confuse hisreaders exclusively he might have confused some of them.Swift also used very long sentences throughout this novel an exampleof one from chapter five is, I had not yet seen it, and upon thisnotic e of an intended invasion, I avoided appearing on that side ofthe coast, for fear of being discovered by some of the enemys ships,who had received no intelligence of me, all intercourse between thetwo empires having been strictly forbidden during the war, upon painof death, and an embargo laid by our Emperor upon all vesselswhatsoever. As you can see that is a very long sentence that probably