The Travels of swift’s Satire
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is considered by many to be one of the most important pieces of literature ever written. During Swift’s lifetime, satire was a popular form of writing. It sought to highlight absurd practices by taking a practices by taking a practice and the ideas related to it to an extreme degree. Satire lies at the heart of Gulliver’s Travels. Swift used this form of writing to criticize many of the ideas and practices of eighteenth-century Europe.