GULLIVER'S TRAVELS 

    What Jonathan Swift pretendes is to analize human failing an political, economical and social institutions. To do that he uses an ancient satirical device, an imaginary voyage.

    The main character of the novel is Lemuel Gulliver, who is a perfect example of humanity. He does four voyages "to a several remote nations", all of this voyages end disastrously.

    The first one is to  Liliput, there he is a gigant because liliputians are very small. Swift draws the liliputians like vengaful, ambicious and cruel people, he try to show us our destructive pasions.

    On the second trip Gulliver goes to Brobdingnag where people are ten times as large as europeans. This land represents an utopia because is governed by a prince who is an example of humanity, of our world ought to be.

    The third voyage takes him to Laputa. This travel is an allegory of the political english life under the administration of the British Wigh minister Sir Robert Walpole.

    The last one is to the land of horses, Houyhnhnms. They live by reason except a few and wel-controled social affections. Theire slaves are the Yahoos, people ho live by passions.
 

    This book is an allegory of the human behaviour. It is a novel with a double interpretation, we can stay at the story and we can enjoy with a fantastic story of fairy worlds. Or we can look behind and try to discover how we really are, how the human beings act. Swift does a lot of questions like if we are reasonable or brutes?, insects or lords of the creation? He showes us our own faces, our many ways of act throug the eyes of an imaginary character.

    This work asks about intemporary human problems and it make think everybody who read it.

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