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"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift



                                                           


Written by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels is the story of the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver, the narrator and protagonist of the story. Gulliver is a married surgeon from Nottinghamshire, England, who has a taste for traveling. He works as a surgeon on ships and eventually becomes a ship captain.

Gulliver goes on four separate voyages in Gulliver's Travels. Each journey is preceded by a storm. All four voyages bring new perspectives to Gulliver's life and new opportunities for satirizing the ways of England.

The first voyage is to Lilliput, the narrator gives an account of himself and his family. He recounts how he first begin to travel. H is shipwrecked, and swims for his life and gets safe on shore in the country of Lilliput, (where Gulliver is huge and the Lilliputians are small) is made prisoner and carried up to his country.  At first the Lilliputians seem amiable, but the reader soon sees them for the ridiculous and petty creatures they are. Gulliver is convicted of treason for "making water" in the capital (even though he was putting out a fire and saving countless lives)--among other "crimes." and he makes his plans to Blefuscu. The narrator, by a lucky accident, finds means to leave Blefuscu; and after some difficulties, returns safe to his native country.

The second voyage is to Brobdingnag, a land of Giants where Gulliver seems as small as the Lilliputians were to him. Gulliver is afraid, but his keepers are surprisingly gentle. He is humiliated by the King when he is made to see the difference between how England is and how it ought to be. Gulliver realizes how revolting he must have seemed to the Lilliputians.

Gulliver's third voyage is to Laputa (and neighboring Luggnagg and Glubdugdribb). In a visit to the island of Glubdugdribb, Gulliver is able to call up the dead and discovers the deceptions of history. In Laputa, the people are over-thinkers and are ridiculous in other ways. Also, he meets the Stuldbrugs, a race endowed with immortality. Gulliver discovers that they are miserable. The narrator leaves Luggnagg and sails to Japan. From there he returns in a Dutch ship to Amsterdam to England.

His fourth voyage is to the land of the Houyhnhnms, who are 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. The narrator is given a notice by his master, that he must depart from his country . He falls into a swoon from grief, but submits. He contrives and finishes a canoe by the help of his fellow-servant, and puts it to sea. The narrator's dangerous voyage is described. He arrives at New Holland, hoping to settle there but is wounded with an arrow by one of the natives. He is seized and carried by force into a portuguese ship. The narrator finally arrives at England.  

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