When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver`s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift`s `Gulliver`s Travels` (1726) is political satire at its best. Published shortly after Daniel Defoe`s `Robinson Crusoe`, it offers a very different view on humankind than Defoe`s optimistic account, poking fun and in doing so opening the door for wider discussions.
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