Themes
- Individual vs. Society
- Might vs. Right
- Limits of Human Understanding
- Human Nature
Motifs
- Foreign Languages
- Excrement
- Clothing
Symbols
- Lilliput and Blefuscu – England and France
- The Big-Endians and the Little-Endians – The Protestants and the Catholics
- The Tramecksans and the Slamecksans (The High Heels and the Low Heels) – The Tories and the Whigs
- Lilliputians - Excessive human pride
- Brobdingnagians – Private physical side of humans
- Laputans – Useless theoretical knowledge
- Houyhnhnms – The ideal rational society
- Yahoos – Nastiness of human nature