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The Impact of Reverse Culture Shock on Gulliver’s Family Life

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  • Atteq ur Rahman
  • Sayed Zahid Ali Shah
  • Shakeel Khan

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Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels has been one of the most fascinating works of English literature. It is its suggestive quality due to which it has been read in a variety of different perspectives. Twentieth century critics have read it in the light of different psychoanalytical approaches. This study focuses on an entirely different aspect i.e reverse culture shock. It analyzes the effects of reverse culture shock on Gulliver’s behavior and his interaction with his family through a close reading of the text of Gulliver’s Travels. Gulliver who suffers from an obvious identity crisis fails to cope with the readjustment problems at home after living among different hosts. After every subsequent re-entry, Gulliver’s behavior especially with his family members deteriorates. The imprints of his last hosts remain so deeply engraved on his mind that fails to live peacefully with his family members and has to live in isolation. This is where we can relate Gulliver to people who after living abroad fail to adjust with the people of their native society and family members. &&

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  • Atteq ur Rahman & Sayed Zahid Ali Shah & Shakeel Khan, 2020. "The Impact of Reverse Culture Shock on Gulliver’s Family Life," Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, CSRC Publishing, Center for Sustainability Research and Consultancy Pakistan, vol. 6(1), pages 339-348, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:src:jbsree:v:6:y:2020:i:1:p:339-348
    DOI: http://doi.org/10.26710/jbsee.v6i1.1071
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