governmental flaw ( Gullivers travels)

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The government is one of the most highly criticized things in the world. From feudalism to democratic governments, there is always something to make fun of or talk about from how fat the president is to how unfair the government taxes the people. Jonathan Swift takes the flaws of politics, from his era, and magnifies them into governmental insults as well as an eye opener to the common man. Thus, Gulliver's Travels breaks up the flaws of the English government to form the governments of the Liliput, Brobdinag, and the Houhynms.

Liliput tries to show itself as a well-cultured society but, the narrow-minded people show themselves to be militaristic totalitarians. As Gulliver studies the Liliputians he learns that they are well-schooled in math as well as engineering. Their government contains an odd amendment stating that everyone must break their eggs on the little end. As in every society there are people who try to redefine the rule such as the Big-enders, who move to another island to practice what they believe. The Liliputians, like England of the time, feels that their way is the best and that they must have total control to keep harmony. This is paralleled with England's efforts to

The feudal government is based on an exchange of tribute for protection. Brobdingnag's government is a form of feudalism except it tries to become a utopian society running without dispute. In the movie, Gulliver learns that there is no form of taxation, governmental brutality, or violence. This sounds strange to him because the society he comes from excepts all of those. This says a lot about how chaotic Swift's society is since things that are moral are not correct and are played off to be the correct path society is supposed to take. For such a superior government, the Brobdinagians appear to be smarter and have more insight into the English when the Queen states after she is told of the lifestyle of the English, " It doth not appear from all you have said, how any one virtue, that priests are advanced for their piety or learning, soldiers for their conduct and valour, judges for their integrity, senators for the love of their country , or counselors for their wisdom" (147). The King in the book further goes on to say, " I have gathered from your own relation, and the answer I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you. I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."(148). In plain English what he means is that from what he has learned from Gulliver he doesn't see how they do not elect priests for their knowledge, or soldiers for

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