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Analysis Of Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s travels is a satire on humankind written in the form of travel journal of Lemuel Gulliver and his voyages around the world. Gulliver’s Travels is divided into four parts or Books, each about a different place. The individual Books also feel very choppy, since Gulliver has a habit of stumbling from one adventure or crisis to the next. In this whole Book Gulliver went through different stages with completely different creatures of human being whose physical features are distorted in all stages, but swift on the other hand, he compared how political, Economic and parliaments are corrupted in England. In the land of Lilliputian, Gulliver had satirized the people of Lilliputian. He highlights the pretensions of politics by informing the reader of some of the worthy and noble practices of Lilliputian society such as rewarding those who obey the law, holding a breach of trust as the highest offense, and punishing false accusers and ingratitude. Like humans, even the Lilliputians do not live up to their own standards when they exhibit ingratitude for Gulliver 's help and accuse him of high treason. Moreover when Gulliver started learning about the Lilliputians government, he noticed that their system …show more content…

Throughout the first book in Gulliver’s Travels, Swift uses satire to demonstrate British politics by using the Lilliputians as tool to mock and at the same time educate

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