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Essay Archive - Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
Although it appears simple and straightforward on the surface, a mere
travelogue intended solely for the amusement of children, Gulliver's Travels, by
Jonathan Swift, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful
work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England.
Through frequent and successful employment of irony, ambiguity and symbolism,
Swift makes comments addressing such specific topics as current political
controversies as well as such universal concerns as the moral degeneration of
man. While he incorporates them subtly early in the novel, these observations
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