... of modern man. The influence of the club can be seen in Gulliver's Travels as well as Pope's Dunciad. Swift had been a great traveller and he wanted to set down the most significant of his observations upon human life so that the world might be forced to read ... irrelevancies and ceremonial absurdities, which cloud the real issues and responsibilities of government. This conversion of Lilliput into England shows clearly that Swift intended his story to be a political allegory. The first three books of Gulliver's Travels gives the reader the image of a world of unreason "the absurd ......

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