Gulliver's Travels: Political Satire
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To the uniformed Gulliver's Travels is just a humorous adventure, but it was written to expose the many problems with the British Society at the time. The culture Jonathan Swift lived in was not what one would call a utopia. The English culture of the late seventeenth century to the middle eight ....
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.... developments in the history of England at the time. During this time, he was recognized as an ingenious and witty man for his age. He originally was a member of the Whig party but in 1710, he decided to become a Tory due to differences with the Whig party. The Tory party leaders at the time were Edward Harley and Bolingbroke. (source 6) His main duty with the Tories was writing pamphlets defending the Tories administration. These pamphlets are where Swift got his start writing satires a ....
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