Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver’s Travels, written by Jonathan Swift, is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. A satire is the use of ridicule, irony, or sarcasm to expose human vice or folly and, according to Swift, “satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face, but their own.” (Jaffebros.com). Swift uses his writing as a machine to attack the political structure of Europe as well as the whole human …

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