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Gulliver's Travels / Taxing Beauty

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: gender inequality, commodification, societal critique, beauty standards, irony  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-08

The women were proposed to be taxed according to their beauty and skill in dressing, wherein they had the same privilege with the men, to be determine...
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Gulliver's Travels / Savage Satire

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: power dynamics, brutality, societal critique, human nature, civilization  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-12

This favourite is hated by the whole herd, and therefore, to protect himself, keeps always near the person of his leader. He usually continues in offi...
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Gulliver's Travels / Transformative Landscape

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: transformation, leadership, isolation, pastoral beauty, societal critique  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

But, in three hours travelling, the scene was wholly altered; we came into a most beautiful country; farmers’ houses, at small distances, neatly built...
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Gulliver's Travels / Civilization vs Savagery

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: existential struggle, societal critique, survival, nature of humanity  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-02

This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we...
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Gulliver's Travels / Societal Degradation

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: desperation, escapism, moral decay, survival, societal critique  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-26

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping...
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Gulliver's Travels / Struldbrug Society

Author: Jonathan Swift (Gutenberg)  | Themes: mortality, aging, societal critique, dignity, existential dread  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-11-16

“If a _struldbrug_ happen to marry one of his own kind, the marriage is dissolved of course, by the courtesy of the kingdom, as soon as the younger of...