Human life originates from the sea, and so does human culture. As a product of literary creation closely related to the sea, marine literature has a record of interaction between man and the sea. Different works of marine literature represent the social reality of different ages. This paper compares two representative works of marine literature, Chinese "Flowers in the Mirror" and Western "Gulliver's Travels", and it combines their economic and political backgrounds, compares and contrasts from the aspects of style, content and language expression, and to explore criticism of reality and its enlightenment on today's society. Some constructive suggestions are put forward on how the creation of marine literature should be created in the future.