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The academy of lagado - dfghjk

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The Academy of Lagado

Analysis

Gulliver visits the Grand Academy to observe the many experiments that are being tried out. The intent of these projects is to improve some process, product, or human behavior for the good of humanity. Gulliver studies several projects in progress — for example, trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers, trying to reduce human excrement to its original food, and making gunpowder from ice, among others, but he feels that none of the projects are yet perfect.

In this chapter, Swift expresses a concern about the nature (and worth) of scientific study of undeserving things. Furthermore, each of the absurd projects that Gulliver reports in this chapter reverses a natural process. All the projects fail, and Swift exposes them as pointless and useless Royal Society is also implicated by Gulliver's reference to the language project. The proposal to substitute objects for words is very much like an actual proposal made by Sprat, the historian of the Society. Sprat wanted the Society's reports to be written in a mathematically style — a style that would contain pictures of all the things mentioned; the style, therefore, would have almost as many pictures in it as words.

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The academy of lagado - dfghjk

Corso: Scienze applicate (PSYC 5674)

34 Documenti
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The Academy of Lagado
Analysis
Gulliver visits the Grand Academy to observe the many experiments that are
being tried out. The intent of these projects is to improve some process,
product, or human behavior for the good of humanity. Gulliver studies several
projects in progress — for example, trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers,
trying to reduce human excrement to its original food, and making gunpowder
from ice, among others, but he feels that none of the projects are yet perfect.
In this chapter, Swift expresses a concern about the nature (and worth) of
scientific study of undeserving things. Furthermore, each of the absurd projects
that Gulliver reports in this chapter reverses a natural process. All the projects
fail, and Swift exposes them as pointless and useless.The Royal Society is also
implicated by Gulliver's reference to the language project. The proposal to
substitute objects for words is very much like an actual proposal made by
Sprat, the historian of the Society. Sprat wanted the Society's reports to be
written in a mathematically style — a style that would contain pictures of all
the things mentioned; the style, therefore, would have almost as many pictures
in it as words.

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