• 'A Voyage to Lilliput' is a literary piece associated with - Jonathan Swift.
- এটি Jonathan Swift রচিত satirical novel - "Gulliver's Travels" এর চারটি খন্ডের প্রথম খন্ডটির নাম।
- এই খন্ডে 'Liliputans' হচ্ছে ছয় ইঞ্চি উচ্চতার খর্বকায় আকৃতির মানুষ।
- উপন্যাসের এদেরকে উপস্থাপন করা হয়েছে অত্যন্ত নেতিবাচক চরিত্রে, এরা ক্ষুদ্রাকৃতির হলে এদের চরিত্র অত্যন্ত নিকৃষ্ট, নীচ, নৈতিকভাবে কলুষিত, কপট ও প্রতারক, ঈর্ষান্বিত এবং পরশ্রীকাতর, লোভ ও অকৃতজ্ঞতায় ভরা।
- Swift uses the Lilliputians to satirize specific events and people in his life.
- 'Gulliver's Travels' is a famous satire of the - 18th century.
- এটি ৪ খন্ডের একটি রম্য রচনা।
- এর full title হচ্ছে - Travels into Several Remote Places in the World.
- এই novel টি ১৭২৬ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
- Gulliver’s Travels combines adventure with savage satire, mocking English customs and the politics of the day.
• ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ এর চারটি খন্ডের নাম -
- A Voyage to Lilliput,
- A Voyage to Brobdingnag,
- A Voyage to Balnibarbi,
- A Voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.
• It's important characters are:
- Gulliver
- Blefuscudian
- Yahoos
- Houyhnhnms
- Lilliputians
- Laputans.
• Famous quotations -
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- The different nations of the world had different customs.
- I winked at my own littleness, as people do at their own faults.
- The use of speech was to make us understand one another, and to receive information of facts.
- You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator.
- No person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.
- Laws are best explained, interpreted, and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding, and eluding them.
- I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.
- Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
- A wife should be always a reasonable and agreeable companion, because she cannot always be young.
- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death.
- Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
- Men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool.
Source: Britannica.