An Inward Look Through the Eyes of Gulliver When traveling, one expects to encounter new things and new people. In Gulliver’s Travel, Jonathan Swift introduces his reader to many new characters and lands. Swift writes during the Reformation Period, and uses satire to take aim at the political system at that time. It also is a partial parody of travel books as well. Gulliver, when he is abandoned by his crew, lives a new life so contrary to his original one, that it affects him and his family for the rest of his life. Swift uses a naïve, average man to show his views of human nature as greedy and vain. Gulliver embodies the English culture and it’s need to explore faraway lands. By using the English this way it makes them judge their own
