What is Swift satirizing in Gulliver's Travels?

was one
of the leading satirists in English literature. In , he satirizes many
aspects of literature, politics, religion, and philosophy, even critiquing the "tall
tale" or travel adventure story itself. 

Swift, who became Dean of St.
Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, was especially concerned with the way that factions within the
Church of England and the opposition of the Anglican Church to Roman Catholicism in Ireland had
a negative effect on the church's greater mission of spreading Christianity and caring for the
poor and oppressed. He viewed many of the...