Two of the more engaging books of the Romantic Era, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, are very similar. Both describe hero's travels to the strange places and adventures among outlandish peoples. They both reflect the literary need of the time to, at least on the surface, based on true accounts. The initial plot is within the realm of possibility and then treads lightly into a land of imagination. Gullivers Travels and Robinson …showed first 75 words of 1448 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1448 total…to realize the achievements, failures, and stupidity of man kind. Being able to rationalize from experience and calculation is a quality of a soldier.1 1. Swift's Gulliver's Travel, Chapter 12, Part 4, Pg.315 BIBLIOGRAPHY Gulliver's Travel, Jonathan Swift, 1726 Gulliver's Travel, Swift, Coles Notes, 1920 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, 1719 http://www.jaffebros.com/lee/gulliver/ascii/gulliver.txt http://www.satire.org/Links/links.html http://members.tripod.com/walrus2150/analysisrc.html http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/6729/index1.htm