Jonathan Swift`s creative work was an important stage in the development of a powerful satirical tradition of English literature. Swift sharply criticized both the feudalism that remained in the social system of his time and the emerging bourgeois system too. He proclaimed his principles at an early stage of the Enlightenment.

 Being one of the greatest satirists of the 18th century, Swift was interested in topics that caused a noticeable resonance in public and political life. That is why his literary heritage has a loud civilian sound. For example, Swift criticized the English parliamentary system of government, British domestic politics and British wars of conquest, and opposed religious prejudice too.

 He also showed himself as a defender of the common people. Swift condemned the greed and pragmatism inherent in the bourgeois class. Crushing these qualities with ruthless criticism, he contrasted them with a sense of responsibility before people and service to the public good.

 Swift was constantly and tensely rethinking the problems of the surrounding reality. That is why his satirical thought was moving in philosophical and political directions.

 He also showed himself as a master of an allegorical genre, so he continued developing no less important English literary tradition than the satirical narrative. With the help of the allegorical depiction of one phenomenon under the guise of the other, the writer showed important aspects of the surrounding reality.

 That is why the unusual travels and events which he described, as well as fantastic images which he invented, were built on a very real basis. With the help of fairy-tale background, Swift described the most usual aspects of everyday life, the class struggle, and stupid stereotypes of mass thinking.

 The genre of Gulliver's Travels (1726) can be defined both as a novel and as a pamphlet. Signs of the novel genre are manifested in the fact that the plot of this work tends to self-development. This allows calling Gulliver's Travels a satirical philosophical and political novel written at an early stage of the formation of the English enlightening literature.

 Gulliver's Travels can be defined as a pamphlet because of their journalistic nature and historically specific objects of ridicule. With the genre of the pamphlet, they are also brought together by the subordination of the whole structure of the work and its images to the clearly proclaimed ideological concept of the author.