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A 6 page paper which examines how Swift satirized man’s incessant search for utopia or perfection. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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is too limited a view. In fact, Gullivers Travels is a metaphorical journey of the human experience that involves mans relentless quest to attain that which is confoundedly elusive
- utopia. Utopia is that ideal of perfection to which the flawed human being seeks above all else. The travels Swifts protagonist, Lemuel Gulliver, take are physical and
metaphysical. Each leg of his voyage "personifies the journey taken by all of us towards self-discovery" (MacKeracher 17). Gullivers travels take him to four vastly different places, and
through his interaction with diverse species, "Gulliver comes to understand his own strengths and weaknesses, long suits and shortcomings" (MacKeracher 17). The pursuit of perfection motivates Gulliver to search
himself to distinguish between the man he really is and the man he so desperately longs to be. Swifts tone may be ironic and satirical but within each successful
satire, there is undeniable truth. In Book I, Gulliver travels to Lilliput, a nation in which its tiny inhabitants, the Lilliputians, are engaged in a constant state of war with
their neighboring adversaries, the Blefuscudians. Lilliput was an exaggerated representation of England, which always seemed to be in a never-ending state of war, and its punishments for crime in
the name of law and order were extreme. To Jonathan Swift, England more closely resembled dystopia than utopia, and it becomes readily apparent that his hero is not going
to find what he is searching for there. In Book II, Gulliver finds himself in Brobdingnag, which is the antithesis of Lilliput in that there is no war.
Also, it is now he who is of diminutive size in comparison to the massive townspeople. Brobdingnags monarch is a utopian-type ruler whose textbook perfection is impressive. Yet,
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