In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Swift uses satire to tell a tale of Gulliver going on voyages in strange lands and meeting a variety of different characters. Jonathan Swift's was one of the greatest satirists ever. In this book he uses satire to demonstrate English politics by using the citizens of Lilliput. The initial aims of Gulliver's Travels, aside from satirizing travel literature, were to expose and disparage the evils present in English society. Moreover, Swift knew that the perfect format in which to satirize the System was the detached form of an anonymous fictional tale.