This paper compares the unnatural aspects of Gulliver’s Travels and select City Watch instalments of Discworld. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. THERE IS JUST US”, his care is the catalyst for justice to occur. While Death may claim that “THERE IS NO JUSTICE. I argue that Death’s actions in their various skirmishes demonstrate that the only way to do justice to the group is by fairly treating the individual to care for the individual in the way he does is to enable justice to occur. Death thus becomes the unexpected champion of humanity and individuality, explicitly committed to the importance of care. This position is echoed by Death in his battle with the Auditors he knows that humans are inherently individual and this cannot be stifled without destroying humanity. While traditionally there is a push towards universalization in ethics, recently many have come to believe that our ethical thinking must recognize the embodied and individual nature of humans. One place this tension emerges is in ethical theorizing. This illustrates a more general tension between the individual and the collective. Death, on the other hand, is rather fascinated by humans and sees value in the individuality humans exhibit.
These beings strive to maintain order in the universe and dislike humanity and all its inherent messiness. Quite the reverse, I assure you.In Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, there is an ongoing battle between Death and a group of beings known as the Auditors. said Windle.“It’s just that…you remember the trouble with the rats last year? That man who said he had a pipe that played music only rats could hear?”“Yes, but that wasn’t really true, it was all a fraud, it was just the Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents-”“But supposing it could have been true?”Windle shook his head.“Music to attract humans? Is that what you’re getting at? But that can’t be true. “Where all the people…are…going…They can’t like it, can they?”“I can’t imagine why they should,”. Hwyomp.“It’s coming from outside the city,” said Ludmilla. There were strung-together noises that might have been intended to be notes, put together as one might draw a map of a country that one had never seen.Hnyip. If you’d never heard music before.”There weren’t notes.
Poons?”Windle tried to pull the remains of his hat over his ears.“Don’t know,” he said. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
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