Gulliver's Travels And Animal Farm Comparison

On reading Animal Farm and Gulliver's Travels, one cannot help but see the obvious similarities between the two. Both authors Swift and Orwell use satire to criticise and make fun of human behaviour. Swift takes a dig at the British government while Orwell criticises the communists of Russia. In Animal Farm, a group of animals from Manor Farm successfully take over the running of the farm after chasing Farmer Jones and his cronies away. The farm, run by the pigs, prospered and they managed to create their own ideal society. The animals soon realised that even the pigs could not abide by their own rules and things began to take a turn for the worse. It is obvious that the basis of Animal Farm's satirising is communism where by each animal depicts an individual person in the communist party. In Gulliver's Travels, the author, Jonathan Swift brings up many scenes to highlight the pride and folly of human beings. He uses many satires to compare the lives of strange creatures to the way mankind lives in our society today. For example, in the island of Lillliput, the people there distinguish their parties by the height of the heels on their shoes and how they crack their eggs. Gulliver's Travels also shows how human beings are so caught up in making their lives better and richer than what they have at present. The last place that Gulliver travels to is the land of the Yahoos and Houyhnyms. There, he satires humans are like animals. In both books, the authors have chosen to place animals in a higher hierarchy than human beings. Perhaps they are trying to say that animals are more civilised than humans.