What does Gulliver's Travels satirize
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1、 The philosophical proposition of the fourth volume of Gulliver's Travels: This chapter directly points to the debate between Rousseau's "noble barbarians" and Hobbes' "human nature is inherently evil", and ultimately ironically denies both: humans cannot return to natural innocence, nor can they reach the temple of reason.
2、 The progressive logic of the four travelogues in Gulliver's Travels: 1 Political Criticism (Lilliput) → 2 Civilization Reflection (Adult Country) → 3 Science and Colonial Criticism (Flying Island) → 4 Interrogation on the Essence of Human Nature (Houyhnhnms Kingdom).
3、 Swift's satire gradually rose from specific social phenomena (party, religion, science) to a philosophical examination of humanity as a whole, ultimately revealing in a despairing tone that so-called "progress" is just a fig leaf for Yehu's nature, and that the ideal state may be just another form of tyranny.
4、 This "from the surface to the inside" structure makes Gulliver's Travels surpass ordinary adventure stories and become a dark fable dissecting human nature and civilization.
5、 The scope of criticism and criticism by the author in the fourth volume of "Journey to the Kingdom of Wisdom" seems to extend beyond early 18th century England, and directly point the finger at the entire human race, which is deeply sinful, foolish, dirty, and irrational.
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