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Author of ​Gulliver’s Travels _____________________________________
Part 1: Homecoming and Lilliput

The movie begins with the main character, Lemuel Gulliver returning from a shipwreck. In
flashback we see the

character being trapped by people called ______________________________.

The little people feared he was a war machine sent by the _____________ ________________.

His son, ________________ and his wife, _______________________ found him in the
stables.

What is the Empress’s opinion of the “Man Mountain”?

Explain how the Lilliputians earned promotions.

Who is Dr. Bates and what is his relation to Lemuel Gulliver’s family?

What does Dr. Bates want to do with Lemuel?

How did Lemuel save the Lilliputians?

What is the effect of the flashback sequences in real life for Lemuel?

What does the Emperor of Lilliput want Lemuel to do with Big Enders?
What does Dr. Bates do to Lemuel?

Who are the Big Enders and why are they enemies of the Little Enders?

How many Little Ender’s died in the war? _____________________

How do the flashback sequences line-up with what is actually happening to Lemuel?

How did Lemuel hide from the Lilliputians?

What did Lemuel give the Lilliputian that helped him?

What did the old scavenger find at the end of the Lilliput story that tied back to the beginning of
the story?

What did Lemuel keep from Lilliput?

What was the focus of this satire?

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Part II: Brobdingnag

At the beginning of the sequence with the Brobdingnags where was Lemuel in real life?

How did Lemuel make money for the farmer?

Who did Lemuel want to take care of him?

Lemuel became the Queen’s new _______________________________.

What things does Tom discover in Lemuel’s medical bag?

Explain how the Brobdingnag’s market works.

What does this system sound like politically?

What is the dwarf’s new job? How does he feel about Lemuel?

Explain how Glum kept Lemuel. What was her fantasy?

What satirical points is Swift making with this story? What points of English society is Swift
criticizing?

How does the Queen feel about England?

How does the Queen’s Dwarf try to kill Lemuel?

What souvenir does Lemuel keep from the wasps?

How does Lemuel try to impress the Brobdingnags? How does it go wrong?

What does Dr. Bates say to Tom?

What does Dr. Bates do to Lemuel’s journal?

How did Lemuel escape Brobdingnag?

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Part III: Laputa

What is Dr. Bates actually doing with Lemuel and Mary?

How is Lemuel saved when drifting on the ocean?

What is the name of the floating Island? ____________________________

Why did Lemuel’s costume not fit?

How did the people of Laputa get food and drink?

What do the people think of the Prince?

Did Dr. Bates deliver Mary’s letter?

What is the metaphor of the Raja and his wife?

What does Tom salvage and try to recreate?

What is keeping the island afloat?

How did the Queen fight back against the bombs?

What suggestion did the Prince make that was genius?

What happened to Lemuel in the process of the island rising?

What is the satirical point of Laputa?

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Part III continued: The Queen, The Academy, and The Historian

What is the belief of “The Academy”?

Notice the room of answers was covered in cobwebs; What is the symbolism?

Why did he find himself in the room of answers?

What is the purpose of Dr. Bates giving Lemuel the “medicine”?

What does Lemuel do with the chalk?

How does the medicine and the chalk to mark off the days parallel the story of the historian?

What was the satirical point of the Historian’s story?

How did Lemuel escape from the historian?

What does Tom see Dr. Bates doing?

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Part IV: The Immortals and Mary’s discovery:

Lemuel is caught by the Immortals, how does he gain admittance?

What lie does Mary catch Dr. Bates in?

What is the satirical purpose of “The Immortals”?

What has happened to Lemuel in real life?

Part V: ​Houyhnhnms

What type of people does Lemuel meet on the new island? What are they called?
__________________

What is happening in real life to Lemuel?

What saves Lemuel from the wild people?

What are these being called on the island? ________________________

When Mary speaks reason to the court, who does Lemuel see in his flashback? What is the
connection here?

What is the name of the white horse? ____________________

What doe the name Houyhnhnm mean?

What is the custom when two Houyhnhnm meet?

What are the satirical points of the conversations about England with the Houyhnhnm?

Everything bad in Houyhnhnm has what word added to it? _______________________

What is the satirical point made about clothing?

How did the Yahoos select their leader? What is the metaphor / satirical point of this?

What is Lemuel disgusted by after the Yahoo attack?

What “strange rocks” did the Yahoo covet? ________________________

What is the satirical point being made by these rocks?

How did Lemuel become rich?

What did Lemuel lose while with the Houyhnhnm?

What does Mistress say and do on Lemuel’s last day on the island?

What point is Swift making through Mary’s speech in defense of Lemuel?

Dr. Bates says Gulliver hates human-kind and Gulliver says he just points out the truth. How
does this reflect Swift’s literary experiences in England?

What does Tom bring to court that proves Lemuel’s story?

When Lemuel and Mary settle down at home, what happens to Dr. Bates?

What is the one vice Lemuel says he can no longer stand?