Gulliver's Travels:  Yet Another Satire by Jonathon Swift..

  Facts:  

1. It took Swift more than four years to write Gulliver's Travels.

2. It's popularity was due in part to the fall of the Tory Party in England, which made

Swift even more bitter toward politics and politicians. 

3. The novel was never intended for children, but rather a very serious satire.

4. Swift hated tyranny and oppression, pretentiousness, cruelty, dishonesty, and hypocrisy, so

throughout the novel, he laughs at and ridicules man's ridiculouness in hopes that the

satire will be self-educating - that man will right his own wrongs.

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Background:
    = the narrator is Lemuel Gulliver, a well-meaning, but not too bright Englishman who describes whatever he see with a simple innocence. ("Gull" was a term used for someone who was known to be gullible)
        =through Gulliver, Swift uses satire to expose the corruption of English institutions (government and politicians of his time)

Voyages:
Lilliput:  Swift satirizes the pretentious English politicians