Gulliver’s Travels Essay

prompt wrote Gullivers Travels to be read by the literate higher(prenominal) classes of the British society, he did this because he hoped that the higher class people would have the higher ranked jobs in the government and could change Britain. In chapter 6 Gulliver gave a long detailed, description of Britains narration and the way in which it had been ruled in nimbles time, the king was perfectly astonished with the historical account Gulliver gave him.The king tried to protest that the personal matters of Britain during the last century were only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, banishments, faction, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred or ambition could produce. All of these argon negative points about England which clearly shows Swifts dis similar of the country. Swift uses the Kings response to make his point even clearer this allows Swift to show his disgust of British society without stating that he himself utter it this offended many people.Another asp ect of British society which Swift was very interested in was the physical human body and its functions. The public in the 18th century run aground the human body embarrassing, including things such as sanitation, which is perhaps why swift satirised it to show his unusual, for his time, interest in such things. Swift however was stimulate by bodily functions and he showed his disgust by using the differences for Gulliver in Lilliput and Brobdingnag.In Lilliput, where Gulliver was the large person, the empress was disgusted when she looked up at Gulliver manner of walking over her but in Brobdingnag Gulliver was in horror with the maids breastfeeding the child, I must confess no ever object ever disgusted me so a great deal as the sight of her monstrous breast and It stood six feet, and could not be less than sixteen in circumference. The nipple was about the half the bigness of my head. These are both examples of Swifts hatred for human body parts because both of the descripti ons for them are all negative.A second example of Swifts interest in bodily functions is in Lilliput when Gulliver urinates on the Empress palace to save her from the fire, the ironic thing about this is that although Gulliver saved the Empress life from the fire he was ulterior banished from the country for displaying such an act in front of the Empress. This is perhaps another satirical point from Swift mocking the English culture, maybe Swift feels like its unfair that even if you do something heroic, such as saving a royal family member, you can be convicted because of the method you used.Swift also satirises women and how ineffectual they were, such as Chapter 5 in Brobdingnag They would often strip me naked and lay me at full length in their bosoms wherewith I was ofttimes disgusted because, to say the truth, a very offensive smell came from their skins This is an example of Swift suggesting that women of his time were an illusion of physical beauty and that they werent as beautiful as was thought. Swift suggests that people often smelt hence why they used perfumes to cover the smell.Swift later states I found their natural smell was much more supportable than when they used perfumes, Swift was disgusted with how vain women were by using perfumes to try to impress the males, He could also be satirising how men wanted women to act like this. 18th century England was very different compared with modern day fashions, in the 18th century women tended to cover skin more compared to directly where the fashion is to show as much skin as possible.So when Swift wrote in chapter 5 about the maids stripping to the skin while Gulliver was in their presence, this would have been a preposterous thought for people of the 18th century even more than it would be now. Swift loved to satirise this because it was something that fascinated, it also makes us laugh in a childish way and would therefore keep us reading. From reading Gullivers Travels it is clear that Swift had a very arduous dislike of the culture and government of Britain and showed his disgust by satirising them using literature.Satire is a rude way of getting your point across often ridiculing something and leave alone offend many people. When Swift wrote Gullivers Travels he said he wanted to vex the world and intended to make people angry by holding a mirror up to English society. Swift wrote Gullivers Travels as a satirical book but wasnt surely how the British public would take it, so he first published it under the name Lemuel Gulliver, which makes it sound even more like a travelogue.Swift using Lilliput and Brobdingnag ridiculed Britain and offended the majority of the population, so when the public found out that Swift was the author of Gullivers Travels, he felt he could no monthlong work in Britain, so he left the country and went to live in Ireland.Bibliography Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift Word Count 2,247 Ben Dewsnip 19th whitethorn 08 10co Show preview onl y The above preview is unformatted text This student written piece of work is one of many that can be found in ourGCSE Jonathan Swiftsection.