Who Dares Ridicule Us for We Are Holy: Analyzing Gulliver's Travel's

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Analysis of Gulliver’s Travels



Described how John Milton, through his travel literature novel; Gulliver’s Travel’s, allow for a refreshing perspective of norms, treatment and civilization practiced when encountering foreign cultures? Who is his intended audience?
           
            Jonathan Swift, in a very interesting fashion, though Gulliver’s Travel’s shows how we as people can be toward another human or even species when encountering them for the first time. During upheaval times of Christianity and religion in England, Swift was known to antagonize the political parties through his satirist work, however Swift’s radix was not just to antagonize, but to question the nobility of Church's and put acts of immorality and or corruption of England on the spot light through his satire's. 

            A great example is when swift writes of the Lillputian’s and how they treat people if dishonest characters. While first comparing the culture that he states is ‘not to different then the woman of England”(2517). His demeanor and description of the Lilliputans is interesting because he allows for you to connect to them and later writes “They look upon fraud as a greater crime then theft, and therefor seldom fail to punish it with death”(2517). It was interesting to see how he portrays them to be very interestingly different however not too different then those of England.
Also interestingly enough they appear to be more moral then any others due to the punishment of death for fraud, for they believed that no unlawful characters will subdue to an honest one, and therefor they must kill them.


Though nobody knew who wrote Gulliver’s Travel’s because John Swift published first anonymously then with pseudo name, it became an uproar and was considered blasphemy to the church since it in fact ridiculed the customs the church had during times of expansion. Churches we known to execute people of different beliefs, cultures and countries were exiled or enslaved, and Swifts intent was to shame it and reveal the unjustness of the church.