Question

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In Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift, in what way might Gulliver, with his reading glasses protecting him from arrows, represent the triumph of reason and learning over brute force?

Gulliver’s glasses may represent his rationality and education as they protect him from the offenses of barbarism and irrationality.

Gulliver’s glasses may represent the ease with which the larger and powerful can protect themselves against the smaller and weaker.

Gulliver’s glasses are a symbol of the role of education and learning in building a nation’s strong defense.

Gulliver’s glasses are a symbol of a rational society’s advances in technology.

Answer 1

Gulliver’s glasses may represent the ease with which the larger and powerful can protect themselves against the smaller and weaker.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the first one of the chart, as Gulliver’s glasses may represent his rationality and education as they protect him from the offenses of barbarism and irrationality.

Being Gulliver's Travels a satire about human nature, the fact that glasses protect Gulliver from the attack of beings in a way inferior to human comes to mean the role of education as a conflict solver.

It raises education as the pillar of society, and the best defense against any affront. In other words, it gives maximum importance to education and knowledge in the lives of men, to the point of being a salvation.