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Places In Gullivers Travels By Jonathan Swift     Gullivers Travels has several places that Gulliver visits. In this paper we will take a timbre a in-depth look at each of the places that Gulliver visits. In my opion Gulliver parelles many places to is home country, England.      Lets take a look at the first stop in Gullivers travels, Lilliput. Lilliput is inhabitited by volume who are only six inches tall. Gulliver seems like a gigant. The Liliputians fork out a structured presidential term and social lifestyles. The governing has a senate, officials, a council, and an emperor. The government has several parrells to the England government. Gulliver tells us that these competitions, to choose the officials, who can Dance on the Rope, are often the cause of fatal accidents. Flimnap, in fact, would birthkilled himself ina recent fall had not unity of the kings "cushions" broken his fall. The kings "cushion" equates Geor ge Is mistress, who aided Walpole in his return to power by and by a "fall." An new(prenominal) comparison between Lilliput and England, Reldresal, a Lilliputian government officer. He represents Walpoles successor, he payed Gulliver a special visit. His purpose is to acquaint Gulliver come on with domestic and international politics, and to enlist Gulliver for assists in protecting their land from invasion, synonymic to the Tories and the treats to France. In Lilliput, the warring parties are the High-Heels , the Tories, and the Low-Heels , the Whigs. Just as George I kick upstairs teh Whigs, so the Lilliputian emperor favors teh Low-Heels. Just as George Is successor, the Prince of Wales, indicated favor to deuce parties, the Lilliputian heir to the thr sensation wears single high heel and one low. Although several things are parralleled to England some things are not the same. They both have punishment system that are based on different ideas, were as the Englandjud iciary system is based on on punishment, the Lilliputians judiciary system has its rewards for side by side(p) the rules. They also have very stiff punishments for unjustly accusing some other of a crime. If at a latter point in clip the accused person is fround innocent, the person who wrongfully accused is put to an creul death and the un justly accused is rewarded materially, and also recieves a title from the emperor. Upon leavin... ...y that is utterly ordered, perfectly peaceful, except for the Yahoos, and exempt from the topsy-turviness of passion. In thier society there is also no crime, poverty, unhappiness but also their is no joy, passion, ecstatic love. Everything is done on an even keel. The Houyhnhnms are the representation of the perfect human culture. The marriages are staged and the couples have no more feelings for each other than for any one else. The Yahoos are human-like, and are keep in a kennel, and prohibited from having anything to do with the Houyhnh nms. The Yahoo had arrived on thier island by acident. These people are less civilzed than the Houyhnhnms. They represent the lowest traits in human nature. They are gluttonous, filthy, lascivious, theiving, violentbrutes. Only physically do they resemble civilized people. They started out on the country only two Yahoo, and as they had children and their children had children they also lost the cilivilation and needed to be around other people to stay civilized. In a bearing this represent the way Gulliver wanted him home country England to be, perfect in its ways. But what would they have done with the Yahoos that they would have incountered?