Swift's main purpose in Gulliver's Travels.

... In the novel Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift comically describes a world of political and social stupidity in a way that satirizes the English world that Swift himself lived in. According to Arthur E. Case, Jonathan Swift "conceived himself as a positive moral and social reformer. [...] There is plentiful evidence of his conviction that he knew not only what was wrong with the world, but also the means by which the world could be brought nearer to perfection" (16). Swift's intentions are to reform the weakness and inability of the English government and political world through the different places that he has artfully created in this novel. He also criticizes the inappropriateness of war, the fickleness of the English social atmosphere, and the corruption of the legal universe in Swift's era. In the novel, Lemuel Gulliver, the main character as well as an English physician and sea captain, is swept

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