Essay Archive - Gulliver's Travels: Summary
Gulliver's Travels: Summary
Many of the critics who have critiqued Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels have used the word extraneous more then once. Swift was viewed as an
insane person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift
wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years,
and it is written from experience. Swift's experience with the Tories and their
conflicts with the Whigs caused him to write books that mock religious beliefs,
government, or people with views differing from his own. In one of these books,
Gulliver's Travels, Swift criticizes the corruption of the....
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