Gulivers_Travels

Gulivers Travels In Gulliver's Travels, Swift and his character, Gulliver, have separate personalities. Swift does not express his views through Gulliver, but through the foreign societies and cultures that Gulliver sees (though is unable to put into critical perspective). 1. Gulliver remarks about the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, Laputans, Houyhnhnms and Yahoos in a straightforward way, reporting on the cultures, rather than analyzing them. Swift thus disguises his allusions to the political and philosophical thought of his time, allowing the reader, not Gulliver, to discover them. The book can be read as a simple adventure story and travelogue (as Gulliver intends), or as a complex satire on 18th century morals and thought (as Swift intends). In each land that Gulliver visits, there is a different ironic comparison to English/European politics and philosophy. Book I (Lilliput) is a rich satire of the English politics of Swift’s time. The small (but extremely immoral) Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose vicious foreign policy and accusations of treason against members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of swift, gulliver, book, time, thought, swift’s, lilliputians, laputans, through, small, size, satire, rational, rather, politics, philosophical, party, offset, intends, houyhnhnms, gulliver’s, foreign, extremely, english, cultures, culture, brobdingnagians, 18th, yahoos, whose, whig, way, visits, violent, views, vicious