To generations of schoolchildren, Gulliver’s Travels has been a delightful visit to a faraway fantasy kingdom. Upon a closer look, Gulliver’s Travels is found to be a potentially critical and very insightful piece, satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England. During the eighteenth-century there was an upheaval of commercialization in London, England, resulting in a change in attitude and thought in English society. It was an attempt by the middle class …showed first 75 words of 1816 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1816 total…to his situation at the close of the novel. He realizes that there is little he can do about being human; he simply must learn to live with himself. To achieve this, he suggests looking in a mirror as often as possible, not only so that he might learn to bear the sight of his own person, but also so that he may be constantly reminded of those shortcomings he seeks so desperately to overcome.