I was surprised to find corruption grown so high and so quick in that empire, by the force of luxury so lately introduced; which
made me less wonder at many parallel cases in other countries, where vices of all kinds have reigned so much longer . . . . As every person called up made exactly the same appearance he had done in the world, it gave me melancholy reflections to observe how much the race of human kind was degenerate among us, within these hundred years past . . . . Who is the protagonist of the character vs. self conflict in the passages above? corruption in the empire Gulliver melancholy reflections humans
The correct answer is Gulliver. Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships (which is the full title), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. It is one of the most important full-length work and a classic of English literature of Swift. In the passages, Gulliver is shown as the protagonist of the character against self-conflict.
