Swift enriches the moral meaning of the work with humor, exposes the absurd with irony, and brings to life incredible events through character and narrative framing, which even Robinson Crusoe hardly matches in the causticity and diversity of its narration. —Scott

Through the description of various encounters from Gulliver to Lilliputia, this novel focuses on the contradictions of British society in the first half of the 18th century, and satirizes the social situation in England at that time. Gulliver was treated differently in every country he visited, and he heard and saw it. The author has made a detailed description of each scene, making people feel immersive, rich in imagination, strange in conception, and interesting to read.

Gulliver's Travels is a masterpiece of fiction with a unique character. Like many European novels in the 18th century, it inherited the structural method of the picaresque novel, and adopted the model of the popular novels that described travel and experience, especially the nautical adventure novels, which was a very good book. Narrates the series of adventures of the protagonist Gulliver adrift on the sea. It is undoubtedly influenced to a considerable extent by Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and a number of other travelogue adventure novels. However, "Gulliver's Travels" and theirs, although similar in form, are very different in nature. It is a further development of the stories of the Barrel Tale and the War of the Century, and has a number of unique qualities that distinguish it from the realist novels that began to emerge in the eighteenth century. ——Wu Houkai, "A Brief Discussion on the Satirical Novel and Its Literary Status"

Literary history's evaluation of "Gulliver's Travels": The work pretends that the protagonist Dr. Gulliver recounts his encounters and experiences in several fairytale countries such as Lilliputia, Adulthood, Flying Island and Huiqiu, which comprehensively satirizes and ridicules the social reality of Britain. Among them, although the social ideals of the "Great Adult Kingdom" and the "Wisdom Kuo Kingdom" society preserve the original characteristics of the patriarchal society, they contain the social principles and values of the Enlightenment. The author exaggerates and distorts the object of satire to the point of cruelty and even absurdity, which has something in common with modern "black humor".

Swift has first-hand experience and a deep understanding of British politics, especially British rule in Ireland. ——Yang Zhouhan and Wu Dayuan, A History of European Literature

Playwrights Guy and Chelidaan, novelist Fielding and poet Byron were, in individual aspects of their work, followers and successors of Swift. - Anister, Outline of the History of English Literature

(Author: Sun Yu) Lilliputian in the first part of the book, "Lilliputian Journey", is actually a microcosm of Britain at that time, and the order of the country is also the order of Britain. For example, the author describes that the highest position in the Lilliputian kingdom is determined by jumping rope (not by human ability and morality), and whoever jumps the highest can get the highest position, which actually reflects that England at that time was dominated by the church and the monarch, and it was difficult for ordinary people to obtain their due position by real talent and learning; In addition, the political parties in Lilliputian are distinguished by the heel of the shoes they wear, which is actually an allusion to the pointlessness of the partisan dispute between the Tories and the Whigs, and to allude to the controversy between Catholics and Protestants about church rituals by the existence of egg-eating "bigians" and "littleians" in Lilliputia.

In the second part of the book, "A Journey to the Great Kingdom", the Great Kingdom is a different kind of social system, which the author describes as an ideal, educated monarchy with a more virtuous and upright king, reflecting a more ideal social system than the English social system. Through the criticism of the English situation described by Gulliver, it is revealed that the English social system is by no means as ideal as Gulliver said to the king. In the words of the king of the kingdom, the author sharply points out that the series of historical events that took place in England "were nothing but a series of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, and purges, and the result was greed, factionalism, hypocrisy, perfidy, cruelty,*, madness, hatred, and ambition." It fully exposes the ugly nature of the so-called superior characters. The king of the Great Kingdom also expressed great hatred for Britain being so fond of war, which was actually the author's condemnation of the evil consequences of war to the people through the mouth of the king of the Great Kingdom.

The description of Lepita (Flying Island) in the third part of Gulliver's Travels reflects the author's clear stance against pseudoscience, pointing out how absurd science is actually out of real life, and how absurd these so-called scientists are engaged in all that is illusory and fruitless research. The author argues that science must serve the people, and should not become an instrument of the ruling class against the people. In the magical country of Barni Babi, through the protagonist Gulliver's summoning of a series of historical figures, the author tries to reveal to the reader that the so-called historical heroes are such ugly people who have obtained high positions through various despicable means, and the author uses this to criticize the monarchy and express his attitude in favor of the republican system.

The fourth part of Gulliver's Travels, "Journey to the Land of Wisdom", reflects the author's attempt to describe the virtues of man in a true state of nature under a patriarchal system, in contrast to the civilization of the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. In the author's description, the Yehu of the Wisdom Kingdom is actually the concentrated embodiment of all the vices of the bourgeois society of the time, and in fact it can be said to be the author's exposure of the ugliest side of human nature. In Huiqiu, the author's praise and yearning for people's good character are pinned. Of course, this also reveals the author's own ambivalence, that is, he feels that the natural state of patriarchy may be the best way out of the existing social system, but in fact it is impossible to regress after entering class society. This also reflects the fact that due to the limitations of history, the author is unable to find a way out of the ugliness of mankind.