Imperialistic Attitude Conveyed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

virtuoso must sometimes wonder what an ideal utopian world would be like. The first things to come to mind would probably rather trivial, such as golden roads, chocolate fountains, etc. However, the underlying core of what a utopian society would be like is one that would have an abundance of both evidently unkn have got words, morality and hu macrocosmity. Morality and hu art objectity would be the superior grace for any society to have, for any government to be set by. Sadly, this is usu whollyy not, nor has it really ever been, the case. Instead, government is run by a largely imperialistic attitude. That is, whatever tidy sum satisfy the greed and hungriness of a nation is what matters, not the inhumane suffering that follows afterwards. This imperialistic and dehumanized attitude is both explicitly and implicitly shown in two heavy(p) novels, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels and Voltaires Candide, along with some lesser known only if no less important stories. Not lon e(prenominal) is this corrupt imperialism expressed as a whole in these writings, but also in its more detailed aspects, such as globalisation of empire, racism, and slavery in a literal and metaphorical sense. The first aspect, trial-and-error globalization, is one that has been rampant for all of the past to the present. By globalization, I do not merely mean exploring another country in a peaceful, knowledge-seeking manner- I wish that were the case. In disquisition of this, I am speaking of that which is exemplified so well in the Spanish conquistadors in America, the noble conqueror and king Alexander the Great, and so many more nations and figureheads to mention. These people were and seemingly still are venerated as heroes for finding knew lands, taking them, and becoming unbelievably wealthy off those lands res... ...m going on about such things as dehumanization and apathy in speaking of mass imperialism and globalization, but all of these are tied together. The very s imple reason for the exploitation of man by man for economic gain is that many people do not care for the lives of anyone but themselves. Others are simply seen as insects that can be used and thrown out. Just property gone crappy All throughout history, humans have sought to create their own utopias. Doing this, most times, ends up creating mass globalizations, imperialism, and xenophobic ideals. Mark Twain say it best, I am quite sure that I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no cloak prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can die hard any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being- that is enough for me he cant be any worse (229).