Critically examine “Gulliver’s Travels” as a mixture of fantasy, satire and travelogue.

Critically examine “Gulliver’s Travels” as a mixture of fantasy, satire and travelogue.

Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is a fictitious Journey through imaginative countries prefaced by an introduction in an exquisite view of irony, upon the art of writing history. On the surface, Gulliver’s Travels is an adventure story containing a fanciful account of strange and wonderful lands. But, at the centre, it is actually a satire on mankind. The passages of satirical allusion are few, and thrown at random among a scattered mass of incoherent fiction. But no word drops from Swift’s pen in vain where his work ceases for a moment to satirize the view of mankind in general. Gulliver’s Travels, as W.H. Hudson points out, “turns out, on closer inspection to be one of the bitterest satires on mankind ever penned.”

 Gulliver’s Travels has four parts. Each part has its own peculiar mood and atmosphere. The book gives us a fanciful account of the various voyages of a man called Lemuel Gulliver. Every voyage is an adventure itself and has a fanciful account of strange events. It is through fantasy that the Swiftian satire becomes entertaining.

In the first book, the satire is good humoured. Here swift satirizes the court, the politics and the nature of man. It is funny to see the tiny king desiring to become “the sole monarch of the whole world”.         The satire against human pride does not interfere with our enjoyment of the story............

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