Seminar paper on issues mocked in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift's, Gulliver's Travels satirically relates bodily functions and physical attributes to social issues during England's powerful rule of Europe. Through out the story we find many relations between bodily features and British and European society. Swift uses this tone of mockery to explain to his reader the importance of many different topics during this time of European rule. Swift feels that the body and their functions relate to political as well as the ration …

…functions for the simple fact that he directly tries to satire the European Government, which is, ran by people operated by bodily functions. Just as the Lilliputians responded to Gulliver in issues, reminds Europe they respond the same way. Using these bodily functions helps the audience to better understand his satire, and relate these issues to each of their lives. Swift reminds Europe that they have limitations just as every bodily function lives and dies.