Political and moral world in Gulliver’s travels
Political and moral world in Gulliver’s travels Gulliver’s travels is a satire on four aspects of man: the physical, the political, the intellectual, and the moral. The book is also a parody of travel literature; and it is at once science fiction. It expresses savage indigation at the follies, vices and stupidities of men, and it shows an awareness of man’s tragic insufficiency. At the same time it is a great comic masterpiece, a fact which readers of solemn temperaments often fail to recognize. The first two voyages show how effectively Swift uses the idea of the great chain of being. The philosopher Pascal had asked what is man in nature, and had thus answered the question: “A nothing in comparison with the infinite,