Gulliver's Travels: Satirical Schemes Jonathan Swift wrote a novel in 1776 entitled Gulliver's Travels. This novel along with all his other writings followed a satirical pattern. Thanks to Swift's vast political knowledge, he was able to create a masterpiece completely ridiculing the government found in England. In Gulliver's Travels, Swift takes us readers to join him on journeys to worlds of utter absurdity. These worlds are different ways that allow Swift to mock the old European government. In our reading, we followed him to a land called Lilliput, and then to a land known as Brobdingnab. Swift uses humor and knowledge to completely ridicule European politics in these two imaginative worlds. Although Swift wrote this novel to satirize the politics of his time, we are able to understand the issues presented because of their overabundance in today's governmental world. Political divisions have taken place throughout history, no matter where or when. In the first book, Swift describes two types of Lilliputians, those who wear high heels and those who do not. The text describes how the high-heeled Lilliputians are absolutely in favor of no change in the constitution. And consequently, low heels favored the change of the Constitution. This type of situation is still strong in America. We are fortunate to have two types of people, those who prefer donkeys and those who prefer elephants. Now those elephant lovers go hand in hand with those who wore high heels in Lilliput. Both the High Heels and the Republicans had achieved dominance and wanted to preserve their position. They wanted nothing to do with a change in their path... middle of paper... any hole in the project that would make it impossible to sustain a so-called perfect government. Swift successfully completed his goal was to completely and utterly downplay the political aspects of government of his day. It showed us that government has remained unchanged (except for a few laws here and there) for about two hundred years. The same problems from then are still present now, which leads to the same ideas as Swift. The reader is able to get up from their seat after reading the novel and understand all the little annoyances that there were regarding the political scheme of the society of those days and compare them with the world of today. After these comparisons, the reader discovers that the problems are the same as those that existed in Swift's time. Works Cited Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. New York: the new American Library Inc., 1983.