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In the early eighteenth century, Britain’s political atmosphere underwent a dramatic shift. While Queen Anne sat on the throne from 1665 to 1714, the Tory party was in favor and dominated politics with their conservative agenda of minimized parliamentary power and increased royal authority. Yet when King George I took power in 1714, the dynamics shifted and the liberal Whig party, the conservative Tory party’s opponents, gained traction in English politics, pushing Tories out of prominence. One of these Tories was Jonathan Swift and parts of Gulliver’s Travels (especially Gulliver’s adventures in Lilliput) satirize the Whigs’ and Tories’ struggles against each other.