1. Satire in Gulliver's Travels
... his novel but used an anonymous name in effort to stay out of trouble (Swift, Masterplots 2713). Lilliput, Bobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms are all lands in Swift's Gulliver's Travels that represent places in England. Jonathon Swift employed satire in his novel Gulliver's Travels to criticize the English government. ... nature. In the fourth voyage, Jonathon Swift draws together his themes in the most powerful symbols of the book. Gulliver arrives in the land of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms are thoroughly rational creatures who look like horses. He also runs into a ra...
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