"2009, Form B. Many works of literature deal with political or social issues. Choose a novel or play that focuses on a political or social issue. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the author uses literary elements to explore this issue and explain how the issue contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Do not merely summarize the plot."
Sunday, June 1, 2014
AP Prompt
One of the AP Prompts that I found:
To quickly summarize, the entire book revolves around the political and social ineptness of humans (specifically the English). Swift furthers the meaning of this by using his ever famous satire in every one of Gulliver's Travels. The size and backwardness of the Lilliputians, the gigantic size and the simplicity of the government of the Brobdingnagians, how utterly lost the inhabitants of Laputa are, and the reversal of the expected roles of the Houyhuhnms and the Yahoos.
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Nice selection of prompt, this one is definitely a good prompt to use with this book.
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree with your point of view on Swift's focus on the satire of the ineptitude of humans, especially the English. The book clearly shows the flaws of European politics by impersonating the faults with different civilizations such as the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, and Laputans and presenting a correction with the Houyhnhmns. Swift also hints slightly at some social issues, such as feminism and free speech.