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Critique of Enlightenment ideals and human nature

Symbolizes colonial resistance and the struggle against oppressive rule

Highlights the absurdity and corruption of British institutions from an outsider's perspective

Reflects on the limitations of human society through the idealization of a utopian culture

Represents the absurdity of human pride and pretensions

Shows the foolishness of putting blind faith in technology and progress

Mockery of the Royal Society and its impractical experiments

A critical view of government aloofness and arbitrariness

Symbolizes the European 'discovery' and often subsequent exploitation of foreign lands

Represents the neglect of domestic life and personal relationships for intellectual pursuits

Satirizes the idea that machines could take over the work of the human mind

Ridicule of impractical scientific pursuits and Enlightenment optimism

She represents the capacity for kindness and benevolence in humans

A figure of British royalty, exposing the frivolousness of autocratic power

Repulsion at European reliance on weaponry and violence

The pettiness of British politics

Represents the worst aspects of human nature

Reflects the exploitation of workers and imbalance of power between classes

The shortsightedness of British foreign policy and moral relativism

Represents the arbitrary nature of law and its enforcement

Exposes the deceit of historical narratives and their creators

Represents disillusionment with and alienation from his own species

The folly of the human desire for eternal youth and immortality

Parodies the excesses of heroism and masculine bravado