Swift also uses his novel to satirize the British culture of the time. Swift focuses on the human body through excrement, size, and other extremely obvious, but often ignored, human tendencies. Swift focuses on the minds of the British by satirizing the ideals of the Enlightenment and their negative effects on British society. Visiting four extremely different countries, Swift uses his character Gulliver to polarize the spirituality and animalistic tendency often ignored by philosophers and other Enlightenment idealists of the time. Swift uses the Lilliputians to shock British readers into focusing on the humanity that Britain ignored at the time. By looking at the Brobdingnags, readers see the body in a new perspective, and Gulliver is able to give readers special insight into the body's imperfections. Swift offers a vision that makes it impossible throughout the novel to regard human beings as purely spiritual and ignore their humanity. Swift, by offering a magnified view of the most beautiful women of Brobdingnag, shows that, no matter how beautiful something is, there will always be a flaw if looked at closely enough. As an intensely cultural traditionalist, Swift was a critic of the new ideas coming out of the Enlightenment. He directly makes fun of the experiments proposed or attempted by satirizing directly during Gulliver's visit to the academy of Glubbdubdrib, as a province of the Laputian nation. Finally, Swift satirizes Britain and human nature as a whole by attacking the philosophers of the Enlightenment who spent their entire lives devoted to the exploration of ideals that, while furthering human knowledge in general, completely brought down the human race by attempting to exterminate those wonderful things. that make humanity. Overall, Swift ultimately succeeded in satirizing the Enlightenment