Gulliver's Travels

I was convinced that I had seen Gulliver's Travels recently. Uncertain as to whether I really had or not, my mind roamed throughout some of the films I had watched over the last few months. Eventually I came to realise that I hadn't seen the film in a long time, actually. Instead thinking of "Around The World in 80 Days". I was quite thankful that I was wrong, given it meant I had just heavily reduced the amount of…

Perception of many literary works, even those considered to be classics, can change over time. A good example can be found in *Gulliver’s Travels*, famous novel by Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift. Today it is often viewed as a classic of children’s literature, a tale of adventure and fantasy that excites young imagination. But when it was originally published in 1726, it was mostly seen as biting political satire,…