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Jonathan Swift

It is his best known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Gulliver’s travels is the story of Lemuel Gulliver and his voyages around the world. The main character is a married surgeon from Nottinghamshire, England, who has a taste for travelling. Gulliver goes on four separate voyages in his travels. Each journey is preceded by a storm. The book is divided into four parts , each about a different place.

Lilliput, where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliputians are small. At first the Lilliputians seem amiable, but the reader soon sees them for the ridiculous and petty creatures they are. Gulliver learns about the history , society , politics and economy of Lilliput.
For many years, Lilliput has been at war with its sister island Blefusco over whether to break soft-boiled eggs at the big or little end. This clash parodies the French-English and Catholic-Protestant conflicts of Swift’s time.

a land of Giants where Gulliver seems as small as the Lilliputians were to him. Gulliver is afraid, but his keepers are surprisingly gentle.
Between small adventures such as fighting giant wasps and being carried to the roof by a monkey,
he discusses the state of Europe with the King. The King is not happy with Gulliver's accounts of Europe, especially upon learning of the use of guns and cannons.
In the end, Gulliver is carried off by a giant bird and dropped into the sea, where he is rescued again by an English ship.

It is a giant floating island. The Laputans live by the rules of science and mathematics: even their bread and meat are carved into geometric shapes. In Laputa, the people are over-thinkers and are ridiculous in other ways. The men are so consumed in thought that they have servants , called flappers, to bring them out of a trance into conversation.
Gulliver visits the Grand Academy, Swift’s parody of London’s Royal Society. There he meets men devoting their lives to absurd experiments such as extracting sunlight from cucumbers.

voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, who are talking horses endowed with reason. Their rational, clean, and simple society is contrasted with the filthiness and brutality of the Yahoos, beasts in human shape. Gulliver reluctantly comes to recognize their human vices. Gulliver stays with the Houyhnhnms for several years, becoming completely enamored with them to the point that he never wants to leave. When he is told that the time has come for him to leave the island, Gulliver faints from grief. Upon returning to England, Gulliver feels disgusted about other humans, including his own family.

size
5 to 6 inches

5 to 6 inches

emperor
They wore different sized heels on their shoes
They couldn't decide what to do with Gulliver
They cut their eggs at different ends

They cut their eggs at different ends

with the Houyhnhnms?
His wife and children
His dogs
Two horses
His colleagues

Two horses