can you pls tell me all the ironical situations in gulliver travels

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1. In part one the king is described in a very grand fashion.  It is ironical to the readers because his physiognomy does not match the use of superlative praise applied by the author.

2. The second part is full of ironies. Gulliver was a giant to the Lilliputians and now he is a Lilliputian among giants. The readers discover that Lilliputians are shrewd and cunning. Thus they find Gulliver  "better" in his disposition in comparison to the shrewd Lilliputians. The humans are proud to be "better" than the crafty little men. However, Ironical fact is, that these "proud" readers are bought down to the level of shrewd Lilliputians when the Brobdingnagian King finds humans to be "cruel" and "inhuman" and sees Gulliver like he saw Lilliputians.

3. The third part show people who live robot like existence. The irony is revealed in this book by wrong assumptions. The islander are so drowned in their "thinking" that they assume themselves to be at the peak of intellect. In contrast, the reality shows them to be dumb and slow creatures. 

4. The last part the height of crescendo built by Swift in the subsequent parts. It leaves the readers astonished because the humans readers find "humanity" worse than animality. The fact that becomes crux of irony in the fourth part is that the humans are shown as worse than Houyhnhnms (horses).

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