Satire Comparison betweeen "The Rape of the lock and Gullivers Travels

Satire Comparison
By : Zach Dees

The “Rape of the Lock” and “Gulliver’s Travels” is two stories that were written long ago, both having some similarities and differences. Overall I believe that these two stories are completely different due to the fact that one is a lot more fictional than the other, and one is written in poem form. So it is somewhat difficult to find similarities. But, nevertheless I will present the differences and similarities in these two stories and I will be talking about the theme, setting and word choice.
In my opinion I did not like either of these stores. But if I had to pick to one I liked best it would be “Gulliver’s Travels”. It did not use the big, hard to understand, Old English words nor was it written in poem form. It was simply a fictional story about fictional feats where the lesson learned is also a lesson we can learn in today’s society. It seemed that in the Rape of the Lock, Pope used very big and confusing word...