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Essay / Moral Touchstones - 615
Morality is a code of conduct or set of beliefs for classifying good and bad behavior. In the novel Gulliver's Travels, Swift also used a moral touchstone in every adventure Gulliver experienced. In every journey that Gulliver has taken, there is only one set of characters that portrays the morals of society and how humanity is currently viewed. Gulliver's first and second journeys were the most similar as they saw the insignificance of size within the human race. The moral of both journeys was that you should not underestimate the size of your enemies, or anyone in particular, because, even if their size is insignificant, you cannot fully know who they are. For example, the Lilliputians are six-inch tall people that Gulliver encountered on his first journey, but although they may seem small and harmless to his giant form, the Lilliputians were savage and had a lust for war, thus representing the pettiness of the world. human race. Unlike the Lilliputians, on the second journey Gulliver encountered the Brobdingnagians, who are a race of giants.. ...