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A 4 page essay that discusses Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, which was published in 1727, a tumultuous time both in European history. By cloaking his political satire in the guise of fiction, specifically the imaginary and fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift was able to provide a merciless lampoon of the foibles of government and human society in general. The writer compares incidents from Book I to contemporary society. No additional sources cited.
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satire in the guise of fiction, specifically the imaginary and fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, Swift was able to provide a merciless lampoon of the foibles of government and human
society in general. An author of the Augustan Age of British literature, his work was similar to that of Alexander Pope, in that Pope also wrote satire, but it is
also a fair assessment to state that no one of his era wrote the same sort of biting satire as did Swift. While this fact is evident throughout
Gullivers Travels, Swifts satire is particularly relevant to current society in Book I of the novel, which recounts Gulliver being a castaway and finding himself in the country of Lilliput.
As is well-known, this is a land of tiny people, to whom Gulliver is a giant of immense proportions. The Lilliputians teach Gulliver their language and slowly come to
trust that he is a gentle giant. This affords Gulliver access to their culture, such as being allowed to witness court diversions, such as the art of rope dancing. This
art is "only practiced by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favor at court" and involves entertaining the emperor by dancing on the rope, with whoever
is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations required by those people seeking high office in the British
government, with the implied meaning that these requirements bore no relationship to the skills those office actually entailed. Rather, Swift is indicating that it is how well an applicant can
entertain those in power that actually gains a person a position in the Lilliputian government, rather than skill or knowledge. In relation to current American society, a situation that readily
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