satiric techniques of gulliver

Gulliver’s Travels has adopted the reputation of a humorous and critical satire.

A satire acts as a literary piece of work that diminishes the subject to a point of ridicule and amusement to the reader. It uses comic relief to ease its content and can act as an aid to human folly and vice. Jonathan Swift, the author of this book, used many satiric techniques to tell this story including the stranger in a strange land motif. With the publication of this very controversial work, many loved is as either a biting satire or a comical adventure. As Gulliver travels to four different lands, the satiric techniques enhance the story. Following the stranger in a strange land motif Gulliver first arrives at the land of Lilliput. First, he finds himself a stranger in a strange miniature land of miniature people. Secondly, Gulliver finds himself a stranger in a strange land of giants. The third adventure, he arrives as a stranger at the strange land of Laputa, a floating island. Finally, on Gulliver’s fourth adventure he arrives again as a stranger in a land full of horses or Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. These four lands take the reader on an exciting and adventuresome journey through Gu

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