What Does World Lit Have to Do with It?: What Does World Lit Have to Do with It?: Truth, Li...

What Does World Lit Have to Do with It?: What Does World Lit Have to Do with It?: Truth, Li...: "What Does World Lit Have to Do with It?: Truth, Lies, and Travel Stories: 'In the opening pages of Gulliver's Travels, I find myself struck ..." In Gulliver Travels" by Johathan Swift you find a mixture of truth and lies. Purposely lies were told to be truths. Gulliver faced many different types of societies in his travels and some societies were much easier for Gulliver to get an exact understanding of than others.With good credibilty at first his credibility started to fade as the stories grew own. When in doubt he would ezaggerate to make his stories more fun to read. He admits this on Page 435 and 436. "Do these miserable animalss presume to think that I am so far degenerated as to defend my veracity. Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that by the instructions and examples of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years(although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, decieving and equvocating so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species; especially the Europeans."
He admitted to having a decieving, a lying problem. In his opinion he wasn,t as bad as the Europeans. This set the stage for his writings. Were they true or not . Did he conquer his lies or was this a lie also.
I believe anothe example of truth vs. lies was brought out in "Gullivers Travels" writings titled, "A Letter from Captain to His cousin Sympson." Gulliver was complaining about the pressure place on him by his cousin to publish his works. Causing in Gullivers opinion a incorrect version to be published' Gulliver states "I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels;with direction to hire some young gentlemen of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my my cousin Dampher did by my advice. in his book called " A Voyage round the World." but I do not remember I gave you power to consent that anything should be omitted and much less anything should be omitted, and much less anything should be inserted."
Was Gulliver trying to be more readable with exaggerations
to his travels by blameing his cousin for publishing a incorrect version of the travels or did his cousin publish exactly what was given him by Gulliver and he was trying to save face. This is noted on Page 433 and 434. This was discussed more on pages 436 and 437 where Gulliver tries to explain that if he had not in some instances made adjustments his book volumes would be twice as large. So he tried to adjust his works to the reader.