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To cross the limit between that which is known or familiar to us, and that which is unknown or does not want to be known is constant in our everyday lives and has always been there since the beginning of time. To learn, we must cross that limit, otherwise we would not be a race of progression. Humanity is a race built on curiosity, ambition and a striving desire to learn, to discover, to cross the limit of the unknown. This is, has been, and always will be a characteristic of the human race. Crossing the limit between the familiar to the unfamiliar is natural and vital for the development and progression of the human race. Man’s first step onto moon, Captain Cook’s discovery of Australia, the discovery of America by Columbous; the limit was crossed in each of those discoveries. Often when this line is crossed discoveries are made, new experiences are felt, and a whole new world opens up. History, literature, and our everyday lives are examples of this constant progression. ‘Transgression’ does not however only refer to a physical crossing the limit between that which is known, and that which is unknown. It can also be viewed in a metaphorical sense. Transgression and in connection with that epistemological questioning allow a different sort of discovery to also occur through this process of unravelling and assembling, be it one about different cultures, about humanity, or even about yourself. This subject of ‘transgression’ has been constant in literature, like it has been in life, for a long time. There are many genre’s of literature, that in some sense deal with ‘transgression’ and its consequences at some level, be it crime fiction, historical texts, autobiographies and so forth. Travel literature is however a great example of literature in which transgression is a vital factor in developing the story, or in some cases telling the story. Travel literature, as a distinctive genre deals with discovery as one of its primal thematic concerns. Gulliver’s Travels (or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World) is a prime example of a text that deals with ‘transgression’ on many different levels. It a text in which the actual crossing the limit between that which is known or familiar to us, the Same, and that which is unknown or does not want to be known, the Other is what the story is actually based on. On one level this text can be read as a simple adventure story. Gulliver goes on a journey and discovers amazing and rare lands, each with unusual and surreal characteristics. He leaves his homeland, that is England and finds the unexpected, this being lands with Lilliputians, Broddingnagians, Laputans, Houyhnhnms and Yahoo’s. On this level Gulliver crosses a physical limit between the familiar and unfamiliar. He discovers races which had never been heard of before and lives with them discovering a drastically different life from what he has known. He remarks on these races in a straightforward way, without a vast amount of analyzations, letting the reader discover the deeper allusions of the text for themselves. These disguised allusions bring Gulliver’s Travel’s to another level, that is a satirical look at eighteenth century morals and cognitive thought processes.
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Title: Tracks
Words: 2624
Rating: None
Pages: 10.5
submitted by: moonkissed
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