This document is a paper submitted by Neha Mehta to her professor Heenaba Zala about Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels and Swift's use of satirical techniques in the novel. The paper discusses how Gulliver's encounters with different societies in the book, like the tiny Lilliputians and the giant people of Brobdingnag, are used to satirize and expose flaws in English society at the time. It also summarizes Gulliver's four journeys, including his time living among the rational horses called Houyhnhnms and primitive human-like creatures called Yahoos. The paper argues that through these fantastical encounters and societies, Swift aimed to highlight problems

1. • NEHA MEHTA
• ROLL NO.: 17
• Subject: The Neo-Classical Age
• Topic: Gulliver's Travels as a Swift Technique.
• Submitted to : HEENABA ZALA
• M.A,English Department.

2. Gulliver’s Travels as a Swift Techanique
• Swift’s greatest satire, Gulliver’s, is considered
one of the most important works in the
history of world literature.
• Published as travels into several remote
nations of the world, in four parts; by Lemuel
Gulliver 1706.
• Swift is a master of satirical writing, and his
use of satirical technique in Gulliver’s Travels
is of a deep and intense nature.

3. • Gulliver’s Travels was written to expose and open
up the cracks in the society of his time.
• It is a satirical technique used so the characters
can amplify there emotions, thus creating a more
shocking experience and reaction.
• His first encounters with another society is one of
entrapment, when he is physically tied down by
the lilliputians; later, in Brobdingnag, he is
enslaved by a farmer.

4. • Swift is a misanthropic person who believes
human nature right and works in a decrepit and
foul manner in Gulliver's Travels. he highlights
the flows in society and shows them satirically
• Wherever Gulliver goes among his fantasy
aborigines, he is always encountering, instead of
handsome and noble savages, aspects of men as
he perennially is, whether in civilized society or in
nature.

5. • The human nature presented in such accounts did not
appear to be morally unrealizable, or controllable only
by the disciplines of civilization.
• Lilliput:
• Gulliver help Lilliputians defeat the Blefuscudian navy,
but he eventually leaves Lilliput and receives a warm
welcome in the court of Blefuscu, by which Swift
satirizes the arbitrariness of internation relations.
• The Lilliputians show not only to Gulliver but
tothemselves as well.

6. • The Lilliput symbolize human pride, and point
out Gulliver’s inability to diagnose it correctl.
• Journey:
• Finally, on his fourth journey Gulliver sets
out as captain of a ship, but after the mutiny
of his cabin, he arrives in an unknown land.
• This land is populated by houyhnhnms.
• Rational thinking hourses who rule

7. • Yahoos, brutish humanlike creatures who
serve the houyhnhnms.
• Gulliver is grief stricken but agrees to leave.
• Gulliver cannot help now seeing the captain
and all human as shamefully yahoo like.

8. THAK YOU………