Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a satire in which the author uses exaggeration and the contrast in size between his hero and the people of Lilliput as a way of emphasizing the weakness of people he knew in Britain. In the voyage to Lilliput, human weakness is found primarily in the political realm, though other human activities as well are shown to bring out the weakness in the people involved.

The world of politics in Lilliput mirrors much of the political world in Europe at the time of the writing of this work, but it is not necessary to know the specific correlations that can be demonstrated to see how foolish much of the political action taken by the Lilliputians really is or how foolish so many human actions are when examined in this way. The people of Lilliput are tiny but think of themselves as

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