This document provides an overview and analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels as a satire. It begins with biographical information on Swift as an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet. It then defines satire and identifies two types: comic and corrosive. The document analyzes Gulliver's four voyages as social satires, with the first to Lilliput satirizing politics, the second to Brobdingnag satirizing the human body, the third to Laputa satirizing human intellect, and the fourth to the Land of Houyhnhnms satirizing human moral shortcomings. Key ex