The timeless tale of Gulliver's Travel's, by Oliver Swift, uses the problems and his criticisms of his time to write a satirical piece tearing at the "perfect" world the English thought they created. He expresses the English as puny, insignificant, and dense. He displays his disgust through the characters that Gulliver meets in his travel and even in Gulliver himself. From the extremely small people in Lilliput to the amazing race of speaking horses, the Houyhnhnms, Gulliver's strange experiences teach him and subsequently the readers that the human race is not as magnificent as they believe.
             When Lemuel Gulliver stumbles into the land of Bobdingnag he is met face to face with giants. The size of the people is not the only thing that leads to confusion between the Bobdingnagians and Gulliver. Swift uses these giants as a symbol for a true Communist government. When before the king and queen, Gulliver ironically states the idea of the English republic and the idea of a capitalist economic system. The giants disregard him as an irrelevant traveler because they have no need for these ideas. The satire can be found at the surface when comparing the ideas of a communist and a republican government. The giants are part of a completely communist government modeled after (but Predates) Karl Marx work in Das Kapital. This utopian government has no need for a debt or a republic because all those in the Republic are seen as equal. In the story Swift is critical of the English government through these. The readers should see these communists as superior to Gulliver. When compared to the Bobdingnagians, Gulliver seems just as irrelevant and worthless as the Lilliputs.
             Next, Gulliver finds himself at the footstep of a floating island called Laputa. The people of Laputa study impractical things just because they don't know the answers. This is an exaggeration of Swifts confusion of why scientists st...