Gulliver’s Travels In Gulliver’s Travels the author Jonathan Swifts main satire are the people that are in the government and other high office positions. Jonathan Swift idea is to satirize the government officials by making them look ridiculous on the decisions they made. He also shows in his work that these people have no business running a government and got their jobs by coming from elite groups. First you have to meet Gulliver …showed first 75 words of 766 total…

…showed last 75 words of 766 total…money and power. That is why Gulliver is sick to return to England, that he has to deal with this everyday. In conclusion, the main satire of the book is the royalty and the politicians who run the country. Swift regularly insults these people in his book. He uses fictional character to represent the people that he is satirizing which in this case are the politicians and royalty because of the reason I had given.