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Representaion of Satire in Gullivers Travels

Gulliver’s Travels is a book written by Johnathan Swift. ... This book is known for it’s satire. Satire is the use of ridicule , sarcasm, and irony to expose or attack something. In this case, satire is used to make fun of the 18th century British and European Society through Swift’s description of imaginary countries such as: Lilliput and Brobdingnag. ... This represented the satire of the separation of the Catholicism and Protestantism. ...
These examples from Book I and II of Gulliver’s Travels shows how Swift was using satire to try to get society to see their absurd ways and make them mad enough to want to do something to, hopefully, change it for the better.


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