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Politics & Society influenced Gulliver's Travels
Added by Media Influence Map · 14 October 2026
- Whig and Tory politics
The evidence
Swift satirised the English politics of his day: Lilliput's High-Heels and Low-Heels are the Tories and the Whigs.
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