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Which of the following best describes the main target of satire in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726)?
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Swift employs Lemuel Gulliver's journeys to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms to critique the political corruption in England, trivial religious conflicts, inflated intellectual pride, and humanity's general moral shortcomings.
Which of the following best describes the primary satirical target of Gulliver's Travels (1726)?
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Jonathan Swift uses Gulliver's four voyages to critique several targets, including political corruption (with Lilliput reflecting English party politics), false intellectual pride (as seen in the Academy of Lagado, which parodies the Royal Society), and humanity's inflated sense of its own rationality (illustrated by the Yahoos compared to the Houyhnhnms in Book IV). At its core, the novel serves as a satirical commentary on human vanity, political institutions, and the limits of reason.
In Gulliver's Travels, what is the name of the first land Gulliver encounters after being shipwrecked, where the inhabitants are about six inches tall?
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After being shipwrecked, Gulliver finds himself on the shores of Lilliput, a kingdom inhabited by tiny people known as Lilliputians, who stand around one-twelfth the height of an average human. This marks the beginning of Swift's satirical journey.