Travels to Countries Afar, Travels into the Future

We have finished Gulliver's Travels and seen how a stranger can observe a new world with new social customs.

H. G. Wells published The Time Machine in 1895, almost two centuries after Swift published Gulliver's Travels. However, both novels are remarkably similar in social criticism and theme. While Gulliver's Travels is a satirical work (making fun of the English Parliamentary folly), The Time Machine uses problems with humanity to create a future-looking science fiction novel.

Soon, we will complete this comparison chart of the two novels.

The Time Machine is available in free audio book online at the following links:

• http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17401/17401-readme.htm
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OroP6b_dBik
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3LI9UingiE

The Time Machine is available for free on the kindle app or online at these websites:

• http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/WelTime.html
• http://www.online-literature.com/wellshg/timemachine/1/
• http://www.literaturepage.com/read/thetimemachine.html
• http://www.bartleby.com/1000/

Gulliver's Travels

Now that you've read the first two excerpts of Gulliver's Travels, here is the video (!!!) to review and watch Sections III and IV of Jonathan Swift's famous satire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIxfV_4wiz8

Remember to complete the following question and satire worksheets that go along with Gulliver's Travels. You can find an extra copy of your work at the links above. 

A Modest Proposal

Today, we began the reading of "A Modest Proposal," by Jonathan Swift. Here is the analysis chart we are discussing in class.

The first proposal is, indeed, to eat these precious babies.

 

The second proposal is NOT to eat the twelve- to fourteen-year-olds because they are much too tough and gross.

The rest of the proposals, we will read tomorrow!