Analüüs Swifti kirjandusest inglise keeles
able to enforce its norm against lying for the law to matter. This may also be a commentary on the
seeming ability of those in positions of power to get away with breaking the law. When the law comes
down unfairly on Gulliver, he has actual rather than statutory power to leave, so he simply leaves
Lilliput to live with their enemies.
Furthermore, satire is shown through the plot of journey and return. The Lilliputians symbolize
humankind's widely excessive pride in its own puny existence because, in spite of the small size of the
Lilliputians, they do not consider the notion that Gulliver is enormous compared to them and could kill
them with just a flick of his finger. Gulliver has learned that their society suffers from the same flaws
inherent in the English society (rebellions over relatively minor issues), but their society is more
utopian compared to the English society.
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