Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Orwell's 1984 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Orwell's 1984, two of the most important and pervasive political criticisms of English literature, they helped shape world opinion by offering new views and attitudes, yet these two novels differ in the means of conveying their satire of human nature. While Gulliver's Travels touches humanity with a humorous note and absurd situations, to reveal the public's hypocrisy and society's reprehensible behavior, 1984, in contrast to Gulliver's Travels, presents dismal and depressing circumstances that foreshadow a future atrocious and threaten human existence. In an attempt to reveal the inconsistencies and follies of mankind, Swift first offers readers the opportunity to laugh at themselves (disguised as Lilliputians), but later readers find these humorous portraits punctuated with searing social and moral satire and hard. Watching the Lilliputians struggle for power in the small wars they fight, Gulliver laughs at what he takes to be a joke, but in reality he laughs at humans and their petty disagreements as well as their obsessions. “There is much fun in Lilliput, and with Gulliver we can assume a certain superior detachment and amusement at the ways of the pygmies” (Davis 86). Another example of entertainment for the viewer and reader occurs when the Emperor of Lilliput attempts to conquer the entire "world" (obviously unaware of a world much larger than his Lilliputocentric sphere) and take over the fleet of his mortal enemy. Still laughing and unaware, Gulliver initially follows blindly during his stay, and completes all tasks assigned to him, because he believes in the goodness of principles. Only after Gulliver's disillusionment with the iniquity of the princes and the emperor, and therefore with humans, does Gulliver refuse to follow orders. These initial feelings of blind trust seem comparable to the party members' unquestionable devotion to Big Brother in the novel 1984. At the moment when the emperor of Lilliput accuses Gulliver of treason, Swift clarifies his satire, saying that the Lilliputians represent simply miniature human beings. (Davis 87), then, which the Emperor and his staff had previously used, as “the degenerate nature of man, the great laws of nature, the miseries of human life” break the mold of the Lilliputian world and apply universally in the world state of all human beings (Davis 90). This short-form humorous narrative offers a glimpse into the final misanthropic messages and subtleties that underpin the novel..