Abstract
Recognized as the greatest English satirist, Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than to divert it. ... I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities," he told Alexander Pope, "and all my love is toward individuals: . . . But principally I hate and detest that animal called man." Indeed, Jonathan Swift reveals the purpose of Gulliver's Travels when he says: "Upon this great foundation of misanthropy, ... the whole building of my Travels is erected; and I never will have peace of mind till all honest men are of my opinion."