GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
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Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Attempts have been made to assign a definite aim to 'Gulliver's Travels'. According to some critics it was to mortify pride; according to others it sought to exalt the virtues of simplicity; others looked into it as a political allegory applicable solely to the time at which it was written. But few critics think that it is not so much a satire at all as a universal denunciation. According to Gulliver, man's instincts are vile, his civilization is vile, and the two together produce the most execrable combination in nature. No sex, no class, no institution, no sentiment, no theory is mentioned except for sweeping condemnation. The simplicity of the style, the protestations of partiality for his fellows, the affected disregard of an inevitable conclusion, all serve to bring out with greater force the underlying contempt and hate. In the records of misanthropy, 'Gulliver's Travels stands for all time, supreme and unapproachable.