Gulliver´s travels

In Gulliver’s travels, Jonathan Swift invents a journey of a human to lands that have never been seen before. Gulliver ends up in the land of houyhnhnms a race that has control over Yahoos which Gulliver finds out are humans. The houyhnhnms are horses that have a very civilized peaceful group. In this writing Swift makes fun of humanity, the way governments are run. In the period of time when this book was written England had control over Ireland and this angered the people living there.

This book has a very similar idea to Slaughter-House Five in the way that it makes fun of things very common to society such as wars. The comparison in this book made me think about the way in which a lot of important people run the world while millions are there to work their way up, and many don’t have the opportunity to do this. Those in power have proven throughout history that you can move great amount of people to get someone’s wishes. The best example of this was the pharaohs in Egypt and the building of the pyramids.