Show How Swift Uses Language for Satiric Purpose

Gulliver’s Travels Coursework - From your study of Gulliver’s Travels. Show how Swift Uses Language for Satiric Purpose, to ‘lash the vice’ he Finds in the World.

Gulliver’s Travels may have been seen as an adventure story by a few misguided individuals, but it is a satirical novel. Swift wrote the book in order to allow people to understand the overall tribulations that were in the British government and British society at the time and to comment on the blemishes of the human race in general. These ranged from hypocrisy to down right pettiness and stupidity. Swift achieved these things through the wonderful use of satire. The novel is a compilation of four books, where in each book, Gulliver lands on a different island with a different or otherwise similar race of creatures or people. This landing on different islands allows Gulliver’s perspective to be changed continuously from book to book. Through his perspective changing, Swift uses satire where his objections to ...