Gulliver's Travels is an artistic masterpiece. Jonathan Swift is a great master of English prose. Based on these, briefly discuss the features of the structure of this novel.

Gulliver's Travels is an artistic masterpiece. Jonathan Swift is a great master of English prose. Based on these, briefly discuss the features of the structure of this novel.

In structure, the four parts of the novel make an organic whole, with each contrived upon an independent structure, and yet complementing the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human nature and life. The first two parts are generally considered the best paired-up work. The exaggerated smallness in Part 1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part2. The similarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state. Part 3,though seemingly a bit random, furthers the criticism of the western civilization and deals with different malpractices and false illusions about science, philosophy, history and immortality. The last part, where comparison is made through both similarities and differences, leads the reader a fundamental question: What on earth is a human being?