Balnibarbi
E644537
Balnibarbi is a fictional country in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels," known for its absurd scientific experiments and mismanaged society.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thunder-ten-tronckh | 1 |
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional country
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fictional location ⓘ literary location ⓘ |
| agricultureStatus | ruined farmlands ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Lagado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | practical common sense ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryTypeInFiction | satirical monarchy ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Part III of Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economyStatus | impoverished ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceYear | 1726 ⓘ |
| genre | satire ⓘ |
| governanceStyle | inefficient administration ⓘ |
| governedBy | King of Balnibarbi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCity | Lagado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasInstitution | Academy of Lagado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSymbolicRole |
representation of mismanaged reform
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warning against ungrounded scientific experimentation ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
conflict between theory and practice
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dangers of abstract speculation ⓘ social consequences of misguided innovation ⓘ |
| inhabitedBy | Balnibarbians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | early 18th-century scientific societies ⓘ |
| knownFor |
absurd scientific experiments
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impractical scientific projects ⓘ mismanaged society ⓘ social and economic decline ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
allegory of real-world scientific institutions
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critique of poor governance ⓘ critique of speculative science ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalWorld | world of Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | prose fiction ⓘ |
| narratedBy | Lemuel Gulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Swiftian satirical universe ⓘ |
| relationshipWith | Laputa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruledFrom | Laputa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| satirizes |
Enlightenment science
NERFINISHED
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Royal Society NERFINISHED ⓘ misapplication of scientific reasoning ⓘ |
| scienceStyle | theoretical and impractical ⓘ |
| subjectTo | King of Laputa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAuthorNationalityContext | Irish-English ⓘ |
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thunder-ten-tronckh