Inner Working Rants: Imagination and Exploration

Currently i was reading Guillvers Travels and noticed how strange the entire story is. Even when you read a summary of the book it raises an eyebrow. The idea of a man who leaves his responsibilities of home and family to travel the world, coming across stranger and stranger circumstances is quite fascinating. The situations he goes through hardly sounds like a actual place but more of a critique of the human condition. For example, the Fear of Death. Guillver comes along a community of mixed people. Some who die, and others that are immortal. This critique of how the immortals may be "immortal" but they are terribly unhappy and envy the people who can die. Giving reason why death physiologically is a must. Then the power struggles of the giant and small people show the insecurities of humankind. Being treated like monsters or dumb.