Gulliver's Travels

Essay: Gulliver's Travels Literary Techniques Socrates stated, "The unexamined life is not worth living." From the beginning of a man's life, he looks for a purpose or a calling that he has been placed on the earth to fulfil or become. Authors throughout the ages, aware of this knowledge, write with the intent helping man search inside his self to examine the purpose of his existence. Swift uses many techniques to spark this analysis. One …

…to force man to examine his life. These techniques act a subtle tools in getting across ideas the author wants to express. Juxtaposition, an ingenuous narrator, and shock value stand as only three of the many techniques used by Swift in this book. These, along with many others effectively cause man to analyze his life two main ways: the importance and direction of one's self, and the efficiency of mankind as he knows it today.