Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels Essay -- Jonathan Swift Gullivers

Jonathan livelys Gullivers TravelsIn Gullivers travels I think that Jonathan Swift is trying to extractpeople what human corporation is really like. He does this through 4voyages separately to a different imaginary place, where the people are asatire of a different aspect of human society, and in each voyageSwift is telling us what he thinks of human society through whatGulliver says, and what he sees. Many people have described the keep backnegatively for example William Thackeray, an 1850s novelist describedit as, Filthy in word, unsportsmanlike in thought, furious, raging, obscene,and indeed over the two and a half centuries since it was primarypublished it has caused a lot of controversy and has divided opinions.Gullivers low voyage is to a place called Lilliput. TheLilliputians are small people, about 6 inches high, and this is ametaphor for their small-mindedness. Gulliver criticises the way theLilliputians elect their ministers- by doing circus tricks, with adance on t he rope and whoever jumps the highest succeeds in office.This quote is showing that Swift is annoyed that people have to jumpthrough hoops to turn into office. This is one of the stupid fair plays inLilliput. This is like politics in the eighteenth century and even now, inthat the rich were the exactly ones in fan tan in the 18th century,and now it is mostly the rich in parliament because they are the onlyones who can finance a campaign.A nonher law is no urinating in the rook. When a fire breaks out inthe palace Gulliver does not want it to burn down, This magnificentpalace would have infallibly been burned-out to the ground, so heurinates on it to put it out. Then the king of lilliput makes several(prenominal)articles against Gulliver. This... ...like the quack doctors, and thedrunks who use all their familys money on alcohol. Also, blue-belly showsthe flaws of mankind and wants to improve it. I know this because hewrote about steady-going people like the Brobdignagians and the Houyhnhnms, asI said before. Swift besides only tells us about what has happened tohim, so if he has only had unwholesome experiences with, for examplepoliticians, then he can only make foul comments about them. However,Gulliver doesnt tell us about any correct people in England at the time,or any good experiences he had had with people, he focuses on the bad.In conclusion, I think that Jonathan Swift is not misanthropic in hispresentation of human society because he only comments on what heknows, and his main aim is to make the world better, and the surmount wayto do this it to tell people in simple terms, in a story of a populargenre.