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Use of Satire in Gulliver’s Travels Satire runs throughout all four worlds in Gulliver’s travels. Jonathan Swift said. ‘Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason…that so very few are offended with it.’ Frequently at this time literature was used as a political tool, it was used to send messages, make people think, and to make insubordinate criticism to monarchy, political parties or religious factions. To do this effectively, Swift used Satire. This is where writing exposes the follies of human behavior by presenting it as absurd or ridiculous. It is not what is said that what is important but what is inferred. The story of Gulliver’s travels was effectively split into 4 parts (or the four different worlds) Each world Satirizes a different factor or part on England In his first voyage to Lilliput, Gulliver is shipwrecked. His captors are a twelve of his own size but they mana