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Fajri Kurniawan 1010733020
Academic Writing
Drs. Josefino S M.Si
22 February, 2014
ARCHETYPAL SYMBOL IN JONATHAN SWIFT'S GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
God create human being with all kind of and its meaning. And also with literary works. There are multiform and symbols owning separate meaning in it. In archetypal literary criticism, it could be found that the symbols influence the people and the society. Archetypal symbol and images came from human's collective unconsciousness which means that there would be some mystery behind it. In this research, the writer interested to analyze some archetypal symbols which appears in Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels published in 1726.
Gulliver's Travels is about the journey of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails. In his voyage Gulliver visit some strange places such as Liliput island, land of Brobdingn...