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"Gulliver's Travels" is an outstanding travel satirical novel by Jonathan Swift. It expresses the author's ideas in a relatively perfect artistic form. The author uses rich satirical techniques and absurd and bizarre plots of fictional fantasy to profoundly analyze the social reality of Britain at that time. The novel is written based on the experiences of the surgeon Gulliver's four voyages and adventures. It consists of four parts.

"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel that combines satire and adventure. In the fictional country of these authors, there are strong traces of the British society in the 18th century. Through the protagonist's travels through different countries, the author reveals the various contradictions in British society at that time and makes a bitter satire on the British political system. Because he encountered a storm during a sea voyage, the surgeon Gulliver accidentally broke into a strange place, and his incredible adventure began: he encountered a war in the Lilliputian country, successfully defeated the enemy and became a hero worshiped by thousands of people; he was treated as a doll in the adult country, and he escaped with a narrow escape; in the flying island country, the strange phenomenon of black self-inversion and confusion of right and wrong makes people laugh and cry... The story is full of whimsical ideas, which makes people laugh and think at the same time. The focus and innuendo on real life also won "Gulliver's Travels" a high honor, making it one of the representative works of British satirical novels.

"Gulliver's Travels" is Jonathan Swift's masterpiece. The author uses unusual imagination to describe all kinds of strange things that the protagonist Gulliver encounters when he travels to "Lilliput", "Adult", "Hyhnhnms" and other places. For example, in the "Lilliput Kingdom", he could freely play with all kinds of people, from kings to commoners, in the palm of his hand; while in the "Adult Kingdom", he could only be controlled by others like a child. After arriving in the "Hyhnhnms Kingdom", the horse became a symbol of wisdom, and humans became inferior animals. Through these interesting stories, the author satirized various shortcomings of British society at that time, such as the intrigues of politicians and the greed of the rich.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the representative work of British writer Swift. It is a satirical novel in the style of travel notes, which expresses the author's thoughts in a relatively perfect artistic form. This book is written in the form of Captain Gulliver's autobiography. It mainly describes Captain Gulliver's strange experiences in Lilliput, Adult, Flying Island and Houyhnhnm. Through the form of a novel, it comprehensively satirizes and criticizes British social life in the first half of the 18th century, with distinctive democratic ideological characteristics.

This travelogue is a ruthless and comprehensive criticism of British society in the first half of the eighteenth century; in particular, it heartily exposes and ruthlessly criticizes the rulers' corruption, incompetence, boredom, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance. This kind of critical voice even reaches a sharp and extreme level in Houyhnhnms' Travels. Swift directly points the finger at the sinful, stupid, dirty, and irrational human beings as a whole. The Houyhnhnm country composed of horses was his ideal utopia. Gulliver was exiled by the wise and rational Houyhnhnms. Full of melancholy, he returned to the homeland that gave birth to him but disgusted him. He had to spend the rest of his life with a group of "yahoos" in anger and helplessness.

"Gulliver's Travels" (1726) is a travel novel in which the author describes the anecdotes that the protagonist Gulliver encounters in four different countries in a sharp and bitter satirical style, criticizing the politics, law and foreign policies of England in the eighteenth century. The novel was very influential after its publication, especially the story of "Lilliput and Adult" was widely circulated.