Read the excerpt from Part I of Gulliver's Travels,

This diversion is only practiced by those persons who are candidates for great employments, and high favour, at court. They are trained in this art from their youth, and are not always of noble birth, or liberal education. When a great office is vacant either by death or disgrace (which often happens) five or six of those candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeeds
in the office.

•What is Swift satirizing in the excerpt?

A) Gulliver's ignorance

B) corrupt politicians

C) rope dancers

D)Liliputians

B) corrupt politicians.

Explanation:

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the journey of Lemuel Gulliver to the many islands where he encountered all types of people and creatures. this novel is a satirical take of Swift on the English nation and the issues that he refers to indirectly through his characterization of the island people.

In the given passage which is from Chapter 3 of Part I, Gulliver describes how the court officials get their appointment to their jobs. He comments that the candidates for any vacant post in the court "dance on the rope and whoever jumps the highest without falling, succeed into the office". Through this passage, Swift is satirizing the politicians and their corrupt ways of attaining their jobs and posts in the British political scene.

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