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A 5 page paper which examines how the aspects of utopia are explored in the novel. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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on a journey that was geographical, philosophical and spiritual. In Book I, he traveled to Lilliput, where war was constantly being waged between the Lilliputs and their bitter enemies,
the Blefuscudians; in Book II, Gulliver ventured to Brobdingnag, a place where there was no war; in Book III, he entered Laputa, in which scientific reason reigned supreme; and in
Book IV, he descended upon the idyllic land of the Houyhnhnms, a superior race of horses. Every aspect of Gullivers Travels is a quest for utopia, a term which
is credited to Sir Thomas More and serves as the title of his 1516 novel, which considered the attributes of a perfect society. In literature, utopia has three definitive
characteristics. First, it is fictional; second, it considers a specific part of society; and third, the emphasis is usually on the societys political structure (Lewis 1351). In his
study of the utopian literary genre, Robert C. Elliott wrote, "To believe in utopia one must believe that through the exercise of their reason men can control and in major
ways alter for the better their social environment" (Booker 4). In the fictional Gullivers Travels, Swift employed satire to convey his message, and
his target was, naturally, Europe, as it existed during the sixteenth century, but he was also mocking the moral platitudes contained in Mores Utopia (Sisk 4). 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.
A place where one constantly fears execution is hardly consistent with the concept of utopia, but some of its social practices could be regarded as utopian, such as its "reasonable
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