gulliver's travels

SATIRE OF GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift’s satirical prose, Gulliver’s Travels, is the subject of a wide variety of literary critique and social interpretation. Although many readers, at first glance, take this tale to be simply a fantastic narrative of a common man and his encounters with unusual locations and people through several journeys, further inspection reveals Swift’s true purpose of creativity--satire. Using the contemporary style of the Travel Narrative, Swift is …

…s Book IV of Gulliver’s Travels makes a satirical attack on humanity. Throughout Gulliver Travels, the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos are depicted as faults in humans. These two species are shown to be an ideal gone wrong. The satire on them is particularly well explained by the new born Houyhnhnm who, having just been born, exclaims, “With this sort of entrance, what must I expect from the rest of my life!”(IV,178). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** online