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Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, he used satire to communicate his thoughts regarding travel journals, the regime, and everything else he wishes to say in actuality but can't speak due to fear of the King. The novel begins as a letter to the audience, giving the impression that Gulliver is a regular person when, in reality, he is not; it provides anticipation. His novel's creative tactics let readers comprehend what he intends and the political allusions. Swift can communicate to a bigger audience of English citizens oppressed in predictable ways through these delicate remarks. Despite his burning desire to tell the story, Swift's fear of the King keeps him from telling everything that is happening in actuality. His fictitious story of oppression by a visually small but substantial populace is an effort to use comedy to focus attention on certain significant events that were taking place at the time.

In this narrative, Swift expresses his actual feelings about being imprisoned by the authorities. The captivity is represented rather literally when he is bound by the Lilliputians and cannot move or travel without their permission. The Lilliputians ultimately released his head, giving him "the freedom of moving it to the right and viewing the individual and movement of who was to communicate" (Swift, 2330). He is only permitted to have independent will to see and obey the person in charge. This is closely related to how the monarchy handled the English people. The English people could do anything they wanted if they responded to and followed the authorities. Several English people felt bound by the monarchy by their failure to communicate themselves, just as ropes imprison Gulliver. Gulliver is shackled to a monastery in the text, and he can travel as far as his chain would allow. Gulliver's confinement to the temple symbolizes his beliefs that the citizens of England are chained to the current church that the queen has chosen to support. In the 1700s, English citizens were obligated to join whichever religion the Monarch adhered to. Therefore as the monarchs changed numerous times, the belief of several individuals shifted to conform to the King.

Swift satirizes how individuals composed journey logs by authoring Gulliver's Travels as a travel book. As people produced trip diaries during this period, they preferred to embellish any tales about the locations they had been to. They sought to make their journey sound better than the one before it. Swift mocks previous trip journals by writing about tiny people and other bizarre things. He argues that every tale in a trip log should be treated with a grain of salt since the author is generally the only one who witnessed everything. The author of the travel journal is free to write anything he chooses, and others are expected to accept it as the reality since nobody else was present for the encounter. Thus no one can question what is published. Swift may be understood to be gently mocking the English colonial endeavors. The English regarded their way of life to be affluent. As a result, they thought that people in other nations had to adapt to their lifestyles, which they saw as better and correct. When Swift wrote about the fact that the inhabitants of Lilliput have a system of ethics and morality, as well as a governance system, it is reasonable to believe that Swift is saying that...