A Book Of Double Meanings
How many books has a person read in which two different stories could be interrupted from it? One such book is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift. This book has been read by many children as an adventure story and by most adults as a devastating satire of society. In the book, Gulliver's Travels, Swift criticizes the corruption of the English government, society, science, religion, and man in general.
First, Gulliver travels to Lilliput, whose inhabitants are under the constant criticism of Swift. Swift uses the events within Lilliput to make severe criticisms of England between the reigns of Queen Anne and George the first. The people of Lilliput are about six inches tall. Their ...
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palace are not in ruin, the littleness of the government and the people in general is displayed in this act. Another display of the littleness is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low. Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and England in the first story. In Lilliput, Ministers were chosen strictly on agility, or their ability to walk a tightrope or stick jumping. They were able to maintain their rank of minister as long as they could keep defeating these tasks. The political parties of the English government are represented by the conservative High Heels, who depict the Tories, and the progressive Low Heels, or Whigs. As indicated by their names, the distinguishing mark of the parties is the height of their heels. Within these two parties, Swift criticizes the English political parties, and the Prince of ...
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of Laputa, Gulliver is confronted with the old age Struldbuggs, which look utterly hideous resulting from old age and the deterioration of their bodies. In this voyage Swift criticizes the Royal Society of England, in which he says is composed of useless philosophers, inventors, and scientists. The floating island signifies that the inhabitants are composed of the same airy constitution as the environment. Projects done by such people are summed up by "the Universal Artist," who directs his followers to turn useful things into the exact opposite, which results in useless achievements. Some of the experiments held were: to create tangible air, wool-less sheep, and horses with ...
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