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“Civility,” Keith Thomas notes, “was (and is) a slippery and unstable word.” “Civil” and “civilian” evoke the social life of a people not under military rule, the world of the civitas—the organized community—the only place, according to Aristotle and Cicero, where the good life is possible. While “courtesy” relates to the values of the court, “civility,” Thomas writes, is “the virtue of citizens”: in his Dictionary (1755), Samuel Johnson defined it as both “politeness” and “the state of…

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Gulliver's Travels: book vs movie Context: First of all, there is a big difference between the contexts in which both works were done. According to the literary work written by Jonathan Swift, the story is settled in the early 18th century, and there it is mentioned that Gulliver departs from London what means that he was from England. Gulliver’s Travels have a lot of satire, and Swift employs both humor and critic so as to attack British and European society through his descriptions of…

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