Although it appears simple and straightforward on the surface, a mere travelogue intended solely for the amusement of children, Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, proves, upon closer examination, to be a critical and insightful work satirizing the political and social systems of eighteenth-century England. Through frequent and successful employment of irony, ambiguity and symbolism, Swift makes comments addressing such specific topics as current political controversies as well as such universal concerns as the moral degeneration …
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…Spanish succession .and blefuscu was stand for France. Chapter-5 One day Gulliver unleashes his urine to stop the fire in the palace. Gullivers putting out the palace fire reprint the signing of the treaty of Utrecht which was put an end to the war of the Spanish succession a war which English was embroiled. A rumor was spread about Gulliver and flimnap''s wife. It was also satire slap at Walpole, who is represented by flimnap.