Gulliver's Travels Many of the critics who have criticized Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift have used the word foreign more than once. Swift was seen as a crazy person who was a failure in life. But this is far from the truth. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels, a book that has been assigned to students for years, and is written from experience. Swift's experience with the Tories and their conflicts with the Whigs led him to write books that mock religious beliefs, the government, or people with opinions different from his own. In one of these books, Gulliver's Travels, Swift criticizes the corruption of the English government, society, science, religion and man in general. In Gulliver's first voyage, in which he visited Lilliput, Gulliver is confronted with tiny people, called Lilliputians. . Now, although this is the premise for a fantasy story, Swift uses the events within to make severe criticisms of England between the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. The inhabitants of Lilliput are about six inches tall, and their size means that their motivations, their actions, and their humanity are in the same, very small (Long 276). In this section, the royal palace is accidentally set on fire, containing the empress inside. Instead of crossing the city, towards the ocean, crushing the people of Lilliput as he goes, Gulliver uses his urine to save the palace. Although this vulgar episode was a display of courage, it infuriated the emperor, resulting in revenge on Gulliver. Rather rejoice that both the emperor and the palace are not in ruins, in this act the smallness of the government and the people in general is demonstrated. Another demonstration of this is the fact that Gulliver is used as the Emperor's absolute weapon, but the Emperor only uses him to conquer his world of two islands. This makes the emperor's ambition seem extremely low (Bloom, Interpretations 84-5). Swift also criticizes the religious beliefs of the Lilliputians and England in the early story. In Lilliput, ministers were chosen strictly on the basis of agility, that is, their ability to walk a rope or jump with a stick. They were able to maintain their rank as minister for as long as they could maintain it by thwarting these duties (Swift, Writings 89). The political parties of the English government are represented by the conservative High Heels representing the Tories, and the progressive Low Heels or Whigs.