The farmer is clearly a greedy man and exploits Gulliver to earn his fortune, but why does not Gulliver protest against the way he is treated? Instead he seems to accept the way his health is deteriorating because of hard labour. Can this be a satirical portrayal of the way we as individuals blindly accept the way society is, and do not object to our inhuman treatment? Does Swift illustrate how easily greed can make us ignorant to the needs of others?.
Peoples faith in the new theoretical science was emerging throughout Europe at the beginning of the 18th century, and Swift attacks this faith fiercely through Gulliver's observation of the Academy of Lagado. The scientific projects going on at this Academy are doomed to fail in the eyes of the reader. For example there was a man that had been eight Years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, another one whose employment from his first coming into the Academy was an operation to reduce human excrement to its original food, and a third who was a most ingenious architect who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof and working downwards to the foundation. Here, Swift makes a parody of contemporary scientific research, creating the Academy of Lagado. The Royal society in England begun publishing its philosophical transactions in 1665. 9 The journal described real experiments that Swift thought were ridiculous. Swift is making fun of these impractical scientific projects by inventing his own and even more ridiculous project. Swift's parody becomes even more laughable when Gulliver describes the country's decay because of its total obsession with scientific research. .
The only Inconvenience is, that none of these Projects are yet brought to Perfection, and in the mean time the whole Country lies miserably waste. .
Finally, I am going discuss how Swift satirizes the idea of man's rationality in Gulliver Travel's.