The Trivial Aspects and Satirical Elements in "Gulliver's Travels"

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a highly satirical narrative story. It is a story that follows the travels of Gulliver himself. It has strong imaginative components that lead the story into a fantasyland. It is these make-believe elements, which allow the readers to pursue deeper into the story. These features entice the reader's to place themselves within Gulliver's Travels. The Lilliputians; the land of the little people, and the land of Brobdingnag; the land of the giants are both important elements within the story. It is both of these lands, which are complete opposites of each other that highlight the trivial and satirical factors of the story. Thus, it is these witty characters and lands that also bring about the notion of Gulliver's scale of size for Lilliput and Brobdingnag. It is this scale of size that also places Gulliver directly between the two extremes. Therefore, Gulliver's Travels places its readers into a world of fanciful make-believe; the land of Lilliput and Brobdingnag combined with the scale of size put a strong focus on the clever, inventive, and humorous attributes of the story.