Reflection Of Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver’s Travels is a story about a middle-aged lawyer named Lemuel Gulliver who goes on four fantastical adventures after being in a shipwreck. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 30th, 1667. At the age of fourteen he attended Trinity College, graduating in seven years before returning to Ireland to be the chaplain to the Earl of Berkeley. In 1694, when he started his writing career, he began to write political and religious satires. He was very loyal to the church and because of this he had conflicts with the Whig party, which he had supported for a long time. He ended up joining the Tory party in 1710.
Gulliver’s Travels is a reflection of the pride Jonathan Swift felt politically in his country. After Gulliver winds up on the island of Lilliput, where he is treated as an unwelcome enemy. He immediately notices the differences between the world he came from and Lilliput. Everyone is very small compared to him and they have a …show more content…
When Gulliver takes a trip to the island of Glubbdubdrib he meets some other important historical figures and realizes they are not as impressive as history had told him. “They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case. Imagination, fancy, and invention, they are wholly strangers to, nor have any words in their language, by which those ideas can be expressed; the whole compass of their thoughts and mind being shut up within the two fore mentioned sciences” (3.2.11). Laputa satirizes the supremacy of theory over practicality in the Enlightenment. Laputa is satirizing the supremacy of theory over practicality in the Enlightenment. Glubdubdrib satirizes the human tendency to exaggerate the importance of historical