Sunday, May 5, 2013
Interpretations of titles
The title of the chapter and the title of the book can be quiet deceiving. This is because when you look at the title of this book, "Gulliver's Travels", many tend to think of an individual persevering through a lot of hardship. When you look at the title of the chapter, "A Voyage To Lilliput", the same interpretation applies as well. However, when a person actually reads this novel, another side to the story is revealed. When Gulliver encounters a storm at sea as he is traveling in the East indies, he is forced to swim to safety. After, he awakens to people attacking him with arrows. However, these people seem to be at a miniature size since throughout the narration, the first person of Gulliver, he describes something alive moving on his left leg. Therefore, if this person was at the same size as Gulliver, then the person moving on his left leg would not be describes as a something. This would mean Gulliver is a giant, or the people are miniature sized creatures. All in all, there is a fairy-tale kind of side in this story that would not be interpreted at first when looking at the title.
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ReplyDeleteThe story is told in a combination of both the internal feelings of Gulliver and in outside view of his experiences. Before the story even starts, there are two letters between Gulliver and Mr. Sympson which make it appear as if Mr. Sympson is the one writing the story for publication. If he is the fictional author of this story, than he would take into account Gullivers personal feelings that he wrote in his journal along with his outside account of his adventure.
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