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In what ways do foreign lands threaten or affirm the traveller’s sense of identity? An identity is something that determines an individual character, often representing ‘who’ and ‘what’ that individual stands for. It is often the case that many aspects of life make up your identity, those including; religion, cultural beliefs and the society in which we live in, all of which contribute towards are own individual perception of life. In this essay my main prerogative is to establish how those foreign lands within the chosen texts, affect the views and attitudes of the travellers persona and if so, how it changes their lives and their understanding of their own original upbringing. If this is the case I also aim to establish how those foreign lands interpret change and if so, do they threaten the traveller’s identity or do they merely enforce the traveller’s original values and beliefs. Throughout the novel ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, Swift challenges the contemporary values of human nature, using the many visited lands and those creatures within them, to represent every single corner of human progression and the forever changing views in human belief. For example, Swift uses the land of ‘Laputa’ to question