The Politics of Gulliver’s Travel

There are several points of the politics that can be discussed in the Gulliver’s travel, and I will discuss about the rope dancing , the award and punishment and the correct eating of eggs in the following paragraphs. There are two types of ceremony in Lilliput, the main show is a kind of rope dancing, which is performed only by people who hold high office in Lilliput. In fact, in order to get a high office in Lilliput, they have to beat all the other candidates in this rope dancing competition. Skill at this dance is the most important part for court positions. Due to the dance involves seeing who can jump the highest on a piece of rope without falling, there are lots of accidents. People try to jump too high or miss the rope and some of them fell down and die. From here, we can see that this kind of way to get jobs and to win the emperor’s appreciation is very ridiculous, they are playing their lives to win higher jobs! Speak to the award and punishment system in Lilliput, reward is considered more important than punishment in Lilliput, therefore, if people can prove that they did not do anything wrong for 73 months, he can get the title of SNILPALL. Moreover, fraud is considered more serious than theft in their country. These rules seems unsuitable to us, modern people, because an honor title can do nothing, also if there aren’t any strict rules for bad guys, they will do more harmful things to the society. The most funny part of their politic in Lilliput is how they have two political parties which is that they are arguing how to eat egg correctly. At first, Lilliputians break eggs from the big end first, but the emperor’s grandfather cut his finger once he was eating the egg, therefore emperor’s great grandfather changed their rule of eating eggs. Since then, Lilliputians had separated into two parties, Tramecksan and Slamecksan. People of these two parties hated each other very much and had many arguments. To have these kind of fights in a country is