Socio-Political Significances of the Use of Fantasy: A Study of Gulliver’s Travels

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AAHELI CHAKRABORTY

Socio-Political Significances of the Use of Fantasy: A Study of Gulliver’s Travels

Authors: AAHELI CHAKRABORTY

Unique Paper ID: 182274
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
PageNo: 937-944

Keywords: Fantasy Satire Gulliver's Travels Socio-Political supernatural

Abstract:
Fantasy, a literary genre, creates fictional worlds that resonate with reality by incorporating supernatural elements. It is characterized by non-rationality, a connection to reality, and the ability to evoke wonder, offering an escape from harsh realities and serving as wish fulfilment. Fantasy often utilizes symbols, dreams, myths, and images, possessing its own logic that readers must engage with. While not always humorous, fantasy approaches reality with a "willing suspension of disbelief" and can be a vehicle for satire. Jonathan Swift effectively employs both fantasy and satire in Gulliver's Travels to critique society and human vices. This paper focuses on how Swift uses fantasy to expose the Enlightenment's view of humans as purely rational beings, particularly challenging British Empiricism and its coercive power mechanisms. Through distorted lenses, Swift uses Augustan satire not merely to tell a fairy tale, but to reveal political truths to the common reader.

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ISSN: 2349-6002
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
PageNo: 937-944

Socio-Political Significances of the Use of Fantasy: A Study of Gulliver’s Travels

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