Comparing Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels and Terry Gilliams Adventures of Baron Munchausen :: comparison compare contrast essays

Comparing Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Terry Gilliam's Adventures of Baron Munchausen      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   The tales of Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, is a well known story.  Ã‚   For more then two and a half centuries, Gulliver's Travels has been read by children for pleasure.   Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" is much the same.   It can be compared to Gulliver's Travels in many ways.   "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" has been given the subtitle "Gulliver Revived" for the following reasons; the adventures both Gulliver and Munchausen partake, political hierarchy, and satire.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   The adventures Gulliver experienced were much like those of Baron Munchausen. The adventures of Munchausen, as well as the adventures of Gulliver, were very outrageous.   The stories described by both are hard for the reader to believe.   Although very entertaining, they are so farfetched that one would find it difficult to consider as true.      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Baron started off by telling his tales as he remembered them.   He took off in his hot air balloon in search of his magical friends.   He first went to the moon to look for Berthold.   This was much like Gulliver's travels to Lilliput, however, Gulliver did not go there intentionally. Once on the moon, Munchausen set out to look for Berthold.   He discovered many things in his search.   While being locked up for trying to romance the queen, Munchausen accidentally stumbled upon Berthold.   He then moved on to search for the next of his companions.   Munchausen fell off of the moon into a vulcano where Vulcan, who was a Greek God, lived.   He then sat down to drink tea with Vulcan and discovered that Vulcan's servant was none other then Albrecht.   While in the home of Vulcan, Munchausen was introduced to his wife, and fell in the love with the sight of her.   Vulcan saw this, disliked it very much, and became jealous.   The same thing happened to Gulliver, who had many enemies in Lilliput.   Flimnap, Treasur er of the Realm, long suspected, with absolutely no grounds, that Gulliver was his wife's lover, "This Lord, in Conjunction with Flimnap the High Treasurer, whose Enmity against you is notorious on Account of his Lady" (Swift 56 ).   Gulliver's enemies plotted against him, and accused him of treason.   Gulliver then fled from Lilliput.