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A 4 page essay that analyzes the first section of Gulliver's Travels describing the use of satire. No additional sources are cited.
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ruled by an autocratic monarch. This framework-i.e., social criticism as an imaginative work of fiction-provides Swift with a platform to present a scathing social critique of his era. While
Gullivers Travels encompasses several voyages, each one to a different fantastic land, by far the most famous voyage of the disaster-prone Lemuel Gulliver is the first one the novel, which
chronicles Gullivers adventures in Lilliput. Gulliver awakens after being shipwrecked and washed ashore on a remote island to find that tiny people have bound him securing with multiple ropes.
To them, Gulliver is a dangerous giant. While he is being held in the Lilliputian capital, he has the opportunity to watch applicants for civil office engage in the rope
dancing. If a man wished to obtain a high government office, he had to perform acrobatics while balancing a rope strung about six inches off the floor. Gulliver comments that
"whoever jumps the highest, without falling, succeeds to the office" (Swift). As the candidates ability, knowledge, or character have nothing to do
with whether or not he obtains high office in the government, it can easily be understood as social criticism of Swifts own era, as he obviously ridiculing the intrigues and
cronyism of the royal court and how the British government functioned, making people "jump through hoops," to use the clich?, in order to curry favor. All of Gullivers experiences
offer fresh insight into the pomposity of societal conventions. For example, he allows the Lilliputians to search his person and make an inventory list of his possessions for the emperor.
There is ironic contrast between the formal tone of the list, which is in the elevated language of the royal court and the trivial nature of what is in Gullivers
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