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A 5 page research paper/essay that examines how Swift satirized the eighteenth century England. The writer argues that the framework provided by the thematic structure of Gulliver's Travels offered Swift the perfect palette for satirizing everything that struck his fancy as needing reform during his time, and in the process creating allegory that highlighted the foibles of his society. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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eighteenth century life, as it dramatizes post Renaissance ideals in general (Hart 369). The framework provided by the thematic structure of Gullivers Travels offered Swift the perfect palette for
satirizing everything that struck his fancy as needing reform during his time, and in the process creating allegory that highlighted the foibles of his society. In Swifts classic novel,
Lemuel Gulliver, a young ships surgeon, is shipwrecked in 1699 and manages to survive by swimming to the shore of a strange land. Exhausted, Gulliver falls into a deep sleep
as soon as he reaches shore and wakes to find that the diminutive residents of the land, the Lilliputians, have bound him to the ground with hundreds of, what are
to him, fine strands. The Lilliputians are only six inches high. By describing the Lilliputian society in great detail, Swift was able to make some bitingly satirical comments on
late seventeenth and early eighteenth century English government. After Gulliver is discovered by the Lilliputians, he is wheeled to their capital and housed in an abandoned temple, which is
barely large enough to house him. The Lilliputians chain Gulliver to the building, but he soon starts to earn their trust. To entertain Gulliver, several shows of courtly entertainment are
presented for him. He witnesses the sport of rope dancing. In this sport, a candidate for high governmental office balances himself on a rope held six inches off the floor.
The point of the sport is to jump high into the air and come down standing on the rope. In another game, this one also for candidates for high office,
the applicants are made to sometimes leap over, sometimes creep under a stick that is either raised or lowered at the whim of the Emperor. The point that Swift
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