Swifts Gulliver's Travels allows us to critically and harshly analyze our world and encourages us to evaluate the mores of early 18th century English society in relation to a ideal humanity. To address the injustices prevalent in human constructs and behavior, Swift uses literary techniques to induce a state of extreme insecurity. The satirical evaluation of humanity's positive and negative traits develops through Gulliver's clumsy process of identifying with the hateful Yahoos and idolizing the rational Houyhnhnms. The allegory of a pet representing more "humanity" than human exemplifies the flaws of human nature and the tumultuous and uncertain philosophical, ethical, and scientific thinking of Swift's period. The representation of the Houyhnhnms implies a direct attack on human nature. Although Gulliver's Travels Book IV makes a satirical attack on human nature in general, it has specific targets in mind: namely, war and the destruction associated with it, the verminous and lying criminal activities of lawyers, and the cruel superficiality of consumerism and wealth inequality. . In intellectual terms the text leaves the reader quite disturbed despite the use of humor and adventure stories. This essay will analyze Gulliver's Travels, Part 4 in terms of genre and explore how satire uses rhetorical means to provide commentary on rational humanity. Furthermore, the essay will examine how Swift promoted change in early 18th-century England by constructing an intricate attack on the philosophical position of his political opponents. Swift consistently uses allegory throughout Gulliver's Travels to induce an extreme sense of insecurity in the reader. In Gulliver's Fourth Voyage, Swift uses the... center of the card... potential. With the power of satire, Swift shatters our ego to the point that the lyrics make us question whether humanity is actually worth saving. List of References Drricks, R. J. (2006). Gulliver's tragic rationalism. New York: Wayne State University Press.Harrison, B. (2003). Houyhnhnm Virtue. Journal of Literature and History of Ideas, 1, 36.Mackie, E. (2014). Gulliver and the good life Houyhnhnm. The Eighteenth Century, 55.Nutall, A.D. (1958). Gulliver among the horses. The Yearbook of English Studies, 18, 51-67. Smith, F. N. (1992). The genres of Gulliver's Travels. London, England: Associated University Press.Swift, J. (1726). Gulliver's Travels. (P. Turner, ed.) Dublin: Oxford University Press.Wintle, S. (1994). If Houyhnhnms were horses. Thinking with animals in book IV of "Gulliver's Travels" The Critical Review' , 3-34.