Gulliver's Travels : Difference between Movie and Novel

Gulliver's Travels : Difference between 

Movie and Novel

v    Introduction :-

                             “Gulliver’s Travels” is a beautiful novel by Jonathan Swift. And we all know that Jonathan Swift was a good novelists and prose writer. In this novel, he talks about the story of one man’s travelling. A travelling story of Gulliver and in this novel there are some movies are done. And with the help of this there are some animation movie also made and with the help of this there are some animation movie also made and some of movie’s made by Hollywood. But in the novel and in the movie, they both not similar but some of the difference between movie and novel. Here we discussed the difference between movie and novel. When we start discussion on this topic first we know something about Jonathan Swift’s life.

v    Jonathan Swift’s life :-

                             Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin in 1667. His father died before his birth. His condition was poor. The life of Swift is just such a living tragedy. He was a dominant prose writer of this Neo-Classical age. Swift is the greatest English satirist from a literary point of view, the next important period of his life starts from 1710. Because his most famous works were written during 1710 to 1730.

v    His works :-

                             Jonathan Swift wrote many novel and his most famous works are,

ü Gulliver’s Travels

ü The Battle of the books

ü A tale of Tub

ü A Modest Proposal

v    Difference between movie and novel  :-

                             First of all there is a big difference between the contents in which both works were done. And when we read a book and see the movie of “Gulliver’s Travels”. We can easily identify the difference between movie and novel. According to the literary work written by Jonathan Swift, the story is settled in the early 18^th century and there it is mentioned that Gulliver departs was from England.

                             Gulliver’s Travels have a lot of satire. Swift has a both of characteristic humor and critic. He was a quiet good satire. And in the Gulliver’s travels with the help of humor and critic, his attack British and European society through his used humor and also satire the people and culture and also satire on politics also.

                             In Gulliver’s Travels we see the power of politics in the novel. This novel also represents the power politics. We can also say that in this novel one of the themes is power and dealing with another is most imported. Gulliver’s Travels is about a specific set of political conflicts which can be appreciated in the rivalry between Lilliputians and the people from Blefuscu. It resembles the political conflicts of the time in England.

                             In this novel with the use of the theme and things like power politics Swift can told the thing that how the situation of politics in that time. And how the people suffering. Swift’s also satire on politicians in that time and in this time also to saw and told the one thing that when men get a power and position how he and she react with another and what happened with another also. So we can understand these things easily.

                             Further we discussed about the book “Gulliver’s Travels” now let’s see how the movie is different and what the thing can be changeable in the real one. Let’s see some imported things in the movie and novel.

                             When we know that the story and the book by Jonathan Swift is settled in the early 18^th century. And also see that Gulliver departs from London what means that he was from England. Otherwise the movie is developed in our current times (the 21^st century) and it begins in a post office in New York City in the US. It is modern time and it is adapted to modern times and it is resembled in the use of very know movies like star wars Titanic and the use of the song “Kiss” of Tom Jones. So we can easily saw that the time period of both is different. So it is necessary that the change in movie is requiring because of time.

                             When we read the book, we cannot feel the closeness in some way because the director of the movie tries to create a feeling of closeness to the audience. In despite of that, the movie has a lot of irony and fun which to remember this new version.

                             When we discussed about on the difference between movie and novel we also know about that we compare some of the elements of the movie and the nook. And when we deeply discussed about the difference between movie and novel, then we saw the difference in both of them with the help of some of the points.

ü Characters from Gulliver’s Travels

ü Special Features

ü Did something happen in the book that did not appear in movie then?

v    Characters from Gulliver’s Travels :-

                             Gulliver’s Travels have some characters that appear in both versions in the movie and in the book. However, if we compare the same characters in both, we know something firstly that the characters in both have different personalities. When we compare the characters which is same in both version and what similarity in both the character first we know the things about the Gulliver’s character.

                             When we saw the Gulliver’s character in the version of the book, we saw that a character that is intelligent and very literate. And the movie shown as not as very intelligent and he usually fails in his tasks. And on the one hand, the movie shows us a funny and a fearful character and on the other hand, the book shows us a character that represents respect, braveness and intelligence.

                             Other character that appears in Gulliver’s Travels is “the emperor is a person that sets the rules in Lilliput and is respected by everybody. However in the movie this character is disrespected by the people of Lilliput and he is not able to rule at all.

                             In the book, the Princess is a character that is shown as a powerful person, but in the version of the movie she is just a charm and lovely woman that is in love with a farmer. Actually he does not take any important decision. In the book she is in love with Gulliver, but in the case of the movie, she just thinks that he is a good person.

                             So, this is the difference between some of the character which same character in both the version and difference between them. And we can easily understand the difference between these characters.

v    Special Features :-

                             When we discussed about the deference of the special features in the book version the one question arise in our mind and though about on things. And the question is…

          “Is the new movie of the Gulliver’s Travels a Scientific?

           Story, or is it closer to a long advertisement?”

                             Then we talk like that it is may be a totally new version of the story, something like the new Gulliver’s Travels of what we are sure is that the movie was a quite funny movie but it was very different from the real book. Actually it added many things that never really appeared or happened in the literary piece of Jonathan Swift published the first time in 1726. Those things that happened only in one of the works, call them special features.

v     Did something happen in the book do not appeared in the movie then? :-

                             The answer is of course it happened but as you can figure out those things was not really related to objects and brands that a developed and capitalist culture would include in their works.

                    It is we can easily understand with the help of those differences.

                             Gulliver was severely punished when he urinated the Queen chamber. That scene also appeared in the movie, but in this case “the Big Beast” was seen as a protector and for the same reason he became more reliable to the Lilliputians.

                             The Lilliputians were not as friendly with Gulliver in the book (when he was in prison) as they were with him in the movie, since in the literary work Gulliver was condemned to get blinded and die of starvation after he urinated the Castle.

                            In the book Gulliver left once he repaired his ship with his own hands. He left Lilliput all alone, without any partner with him. Did he return to his warm house far away from any problem and adventure? Actually he did. But he returned and stayed there just for two months and then he started his next sea voyage only to arrive to a country of Giants.

                             So, this is the answer of above question that of course something happen in the movie which can happen in the book also. This thing happens in the movie also. But it can happen in different way and one cannot understood this things or different in the first way. So it can saw also a different between both of version.

v    To summing up :-  

                             So, after long discussion and know about all the things of the book and the movie “Gulliver’s Travels”. We can easily understand the difference between the movie and the book. And what’s the element and things can different in both version. So we can say that some of things can similar and some difference also in the movie and the book “Gulliver’s Travels”.