Theme: critique
Pride and Prejudice / Public Perception
Miss Lucas is married and settled: and one of my own daughters. I suppose you have heard of it; indeed, you must have seen it in the papers. It was in...
Pride and Prejudice / Misunderstanding and Accountability
I knew enough of your disposition to be certain, that had you been absolutely, irrevocably decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady ...
Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty
The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...
Gulliver's Travels / Horses and Humanity
When I asserted that the _Yahoos_ were the only governing animals in my country, which my master said was altogether past his conception, he desired t...
Gulliver's Travels / Savage Satire
This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. He usually continues in offi...
Gulliver's Travels / Voyages and Encounters
In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, GLUBBDUBDRIB, LUGGNAGG AND JAPAN. I had n...
Frankenstein / Disillusioned Pursuits
I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not a...
Gulliver's Travels / Transformative Landscape
But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built...
Gulliver's Travels / Existence and Indifference
With tools made of these flints, they likewise cut their hay, and reap their oats, which there grow naturally in several fields; the _Yahoos_ draw hom...
Gulliver's Travels / Civilization vs Savagery
This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we...
Gulliver's Travels / Societal Degradation
Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping...
Gulliver's Travels / Struldbrug Society
“If a _struldbrug_ happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of...