Luggnagg
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Luggnagg is a fictional island kingdom in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel "Gulliver's Travels," notable for its immortal but perpetually aging inhabitants called Struldbrugs.
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional island kingdom
ⓘ
fictional location ⓘ literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Gulliver's Travels NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorNationalityOfWork | Irish-English ⓘ |
| countryInFiction | Gulliver's Travels universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | Kingdom of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Jonathan Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Part III, chapters 9–10 of Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Gulliver's Travels, Part III NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPublicationYear | 1726 ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy
ⓘ
satire ⓘ |
| governmentTypeInFiction | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasCapitalInFiction | Traldragdubh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalCustom | marking Struldbrugs with a red dot above the left eyebrow at birth ⓘ |
| hasFictionalEthnicGroup | Struldbrugs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalLaw | Struldbrugs are legally dead at age eighty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalReligionElement | ritual of licking the floor before the king ⓘ |
| hasFictionalSocialIssue | miserable immortality of Struldbrugs ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
abuse of power
ⓘ
mortality and aging ⓘ vanity of human wishes ⓘ |
| inhabitantDesignationInFiction | Luggnaggians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageInFiction | Luggnaggian language ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | Augustan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInFictionalUniverse | same world as Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and Laputa ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | satirizes human wish for eternal life ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Struldbrugs
NERFINISHED
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immortal but perpetually aging inhabitants ⓘ |
| partOf | the fictional geography of Gulliver's Travels ⓘ |
| symbolizes | arbitrary and absolute monarchy ⓘ |
| travelRouteInStory | between Japan and Balnibarbi ⓘ |
| usedAsAllegoryFor |
corruption and decay associated with extreme old age
ⓘ
dangers of desiring immortality ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Lemuel Gulliver NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLanguage | English (original text describing it) ⓘ |
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