Struldbrug Essays

1. Describe what Swift satirizes in “Gulliver’s Travel”. In first voyage of Gulliver to Lilliput, Gulliver shows us the difference in size between him and the Lilliputians in an ironic way. It satirizes that the importance of the physical power. While Gulliver can easily harm them by just his careless walk because of his size, he has to gain the trust of the Lilliputians. Moreover, even though Lilliputians are only six inches tall, they do not taken from him, and they thought that he is under their

because once he reads about freedom, he wants it more than ever, and he is more upset that he must live a slave forever, so he moves on to a new pursuit of happiness which is being free. Gulliver is given a similar warning when he describes being a struldbrug, someone who lives forever, would make him the happiest, “That the question therefore was not, whether a man would choose to be always in the prime of youth, attended with prosperity and health; but how he would pass a perpetual life under all the