Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel is probably the most widely read political satire ever.

... Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel is probably the most widely read political satire ever. On the surface, it appears simple and straightforward, a mere travelogue intended for children, it, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England. Gulliver's Travel is the travel account of a ship surgeon, Lemuel Gulliver, who finds himself castaway on the island of Lilliput, where the inhabitants were just six inches tall and his consequent travels to Brobdingnag-the land of giants, Laputa-the land of mathematics and music and finally to the country of Houyhnhnms-horses with reasoning and rationality, who lived with the brutish Yahoos. When we analyse Gulliver's Travel, we have to keep in mind the period in which Swift wrote it and that the events which occurred then had a profound influence over his work. Many of the comparisons might not be relevant or

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