Allusion in Gulliver's Travels

Allusion Examples in Gulliver's Travels:

Part I - Chapter VII

"to put out both your eyes..." See in text (Part I - Chapter VII)

Swift alludes to the punishment of Samson in the Bible, whose eyes were gouged by the Philistines. His blindness did not keep him from using his tremendous strength.

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"Some of your servants were to have private orders to strew a poisonous juice in your shirts and sheets, which would soon make you tear your own flesh and die in the utmost torture..." See in text (Part I - Chapter VII)

Swift alludes to the death of Hercules, who according to Greek mythology, put on a poisoned cloak and died in agony.

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