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Exploring Swift's Perspectives in Gulliver's Travels: Homework and Class Reminders

In today's class agenda, we will review key concepts from "Gulliver's Travels," focusing on Jonathan Swift's examination of humanity through a critical lens. We will recap our previous discussion, highlight important quotes, and analyze the significance of evidence found in "The Lady's Dressing Room." Please complete the assigned reading of "Gulliver’s Travels," Part 4, Chapters 5-8, by the next class. Remember to prepare for the quiz and review handouts, including quotes by Terry Eagleton and context slides on Swift. Homework and instructions for Essay 1 are also available online.

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Exploring Swift's Perspectives in Gulliver's Travels: Homework and Class Reminders

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Explain homework for next class. • Reminder about previous class • Gulliver & perspective • Swift looking at humanity “darkly” “with sharp and horrible eyes.” • Return to “The Lady’s Dressing Room” 2589-93 • What examples of evidence are discovered in the dressing room? • Go over the passage on 2345-47. (handout)—what’s noteworthy? • Provide context for Swift. (PowerPoint) • Literary, intellectual, economic, political, religious, biographical. • Underscore Swift’s position and perspective. • Go over the quotes by Terry Eagleton (handout). • If time, begin going over Ch 1-4 of Part 4 of GT.

  2. Homework for next class • Read Gulliver’s Travels: Part 4, Chapters 5-8 (pp. 2431-46). • Quiz next class • On pages 2301-03 & 2323-24, (headnotes on Swift and GT) • the PowerPoint slides of context for GT, • and two questions are on GT, Part 4, Chapters 1-4. • Do the Reading Response for GT; choose one. • See the online instructions. Turn it in at the midterm. • Check out the class website. • Instructions for Essay 1 are up, but we haven’t really read GT yet and that essay isn’t due until the fifth week.

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