Saturated with Satire: Gulliver's Travels

Since the emergence of European enlightenment in 1926, the story of Gulliver's Travels has been used as a child's story. Many people of all ages like this story due to its unique fictitious character and a change in the exciting and strange event that confronts the hero's gulliver. It is a perfect story for a fun child, but it is not the sole purpose of the author Jonathan Swift. Humor of this novel is full of sarcasm of irony and religious, political and human satire.

Gulliver's Travels is a satirical novel about seafarers who are at risk in unfamiliar lands and Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, uses these adventures to satire the British society. The most popular satire is used as the land of Gulliver through Lilliput, Brombdinag, Houyhnhnms. An example that satirizes British society with Gulliver's trip is the political issue of Lilliputians. Lilliputians got a senior office to "dance through the rope to compete for emperor's entertainment" (Orwell).

Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's 'Candid' Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's 'Candide' are typical literary works of the Enlightenment. Both authors use irony for their work. Ironic is a literary form meaning irony. Therefore, they have some similarities. They all want to expose human vices with a satirical tone. Different personal styles, there are many differences in the two novels. Two novels criticize the weakness of human nature using irony. In Gulliver's Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift is a close-up from the story of Lymeel Gulliver who is from the UK and is a surgeon. When his work encounters a garbage dump, Gulliver goes to the sea. The story is told in a first person perspective. Gulliver tells the story of the adventure that happened during his journey. The characters of this story are Lemuel Gulliver, Emperor, Farmer, farmer's daughter, King and Queen of Brobdingnag, Lord Munodi, Yahoos and Houyhnhnms. Gulliver is the main