Of all his writings, this novel shows Swift's merits of his mind. His extraordinary queft of expression. It is written in a very strange language. It is understandable nowadays, but not then. This novel shows the tendency of the XVIIIth century to see truth in relative terms. Is this Swift's opinion that truth is relative? We have to face that truth is quite relative in the novel. We have Gulliver as a giant when he is in Lilliput, but when he is with the giants. He is a dwarf (relative). We must notice that he is representative of mankind. In the XIXth century, critics criticised the novel thinking that the Yahoos were for Gulliver, the representative of man. The development of men becoming animal, savagery. This interpretation has to be defeated by the critics of the XXth century.
             These people of the XVIIIth century were fond of travels, but never it was invented. Travellers wrote most novels. This is a travel book, but he never invented to pass it as a real one. Why does this book please everybody? Why has this book been turned into a fairy book? A book for children. Children are familiarised with dwarfs, giants and magic. This is one of the great greatness of great writers: their books have to be understood and joined by everybody. People were familiarised with travel books. It is a very complex book speaking
             about genre. It is a satire. "Swift" is satiric from the beginning to the end. It is a satire of few aspects of men, we could say it is a philosophical satire: physical, political, intellectual and moral aspects of man.
             Notice: physical it is the most elemental aspect of man; it is the social and political part; intellectual with our mind or reason; "moral" the spiritual aspect at the top of them. In the XVIIIth century, moral was the spiritual part:
             It is a satire of man as conceived in Western culture. It is a parody of a travel book. It is also a science fiction book, and at the same ti...