Part one of term paper
In Gulliver's Travels, Swift and his character, Gulliver, have separate personalities. Swift does not express his views through Gulliver, but through the foreign societies and cultures that Gulliver sees (though is unable to put into a critical perspective). Gulliver remarks about the Lilliputians, Brobdingnagians, laputans, Huoyhnhnms, and ...

Part two of term paper
... satire on 18th century morals and thought (as Swift intends) In each land Gulliver visits, there is a different ironic comparison to English/European politics and philosophy. Book 1 (Lilliput) is a rich satire of the English politics of Swift's time. The small but extremely immoral Lilliputians represent the Whig party of England, whose viscious foreign policy and accusations of treason agaainst members of the Tory party Swift despised. The small size of the Lilliputians is in inverse proportion ...