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Gulliver's travels Summary

Lemuel Gulliver, a pragmatic Englishman with surgical training, tells his journey in Gulliver's Travels.
When his business collapses, Gulliver decides to travel the world. Gulliver describes the misadventures
that occur to him on these journeys in a deadpan first-person narrative, with few instances of self-
reflection or intense emotional reaction. When Gulliver wakes up after his shipwreck, he discovers that he
is bound by many tiny threads and being addressed by tiny captors who are awestruck by him but fiercely
protective of their realm. This is the beginning of Gulliver's voyage in Lilliput. Despite the fact that their
arrows are hardly more than pinpricks, they are not hesitant to employ violence against Gulliver.
They risk hunger in their country by feeding Gulliver, who eats more than a thousand Lilliputians could,
although they are generally kind. Gulliver is transported into the capital on a huge waggon that the
Lilliputians made just for the purpose. Gulliver entertains the emperor while presenting him to him, and
he is touched by the attention of royalty. The army eventually uses Gulliver as a national asset in its
conflict with the Blefuscuans, whom the Lilliputians despise for holding different views on how to break
eggs. However, all changes when Gulliver is found guilty of treason for using his urine to put out a fire in
the royal palace and is sentenced to die by being shot in the eyes and starved. Gulliver manages to get
away to Blefuscu, where he may fix a boat he discovers and set sail for England. After spending two
months in England with his wife and family, Gulliver sets off on his second maritime journey, which will
lead him to a place known as Brobdingnag, a realm of giants. He is found by a field worker here. He is
first kept by the farmer as little more than an animal for entertainment.
In the end, the farmer sells Gulliver to the queen, who gives him a courtly amusement and enjoys his
musical abilities. After being discovered by the court, Gulliver has an easy but unenjoyable social life.
The physique of the Brobdingnagians, whose common defects are many times amplified by their
enormous stature, frequently repulses Gulliver. He is therefore repelled by their large skin pores and the
sound of their torrential urinating when a couple of courtly women allow him to play with their nude
bodies instead of attracted to them. He is often astounded by how ignorant everyone here is—not even the
monarch is knowledgeable about politics. More unpleasant discoveries in Brobdingnag include other
beasts from the realm that put his life in risk. He has trouble eating since even Brobdingnagian insects
leave sticky tracks on their meal. Gulliver is travelling with the royal couple to the frontier when his cage
is taken by an eagle and thrown into the water, forcing him to abandon Brobdingnag. Gulliver then sets
ship once again and, following a pirate raid, arrives at Laputa, where a floating island named Balnibarbi,
populated by theorists and academics, oppresses the country below.
The scientific study carried out at Laputa and Balnibarbi is completely absurd and unworkable, and its
inhabitants also seem completely disconnected from reality. Gulliver takes a little detour to Glubbdubdrib
where he witnesses the reenactment of historical characters like Julius Caesar and other military
commanders, who he finds to be much less impressive than in literature. He is able to sail to Japan and
from there return to Earth after seeing the Luggnaggians and the Struldbrugs, the latter of which are senile
immortals who demonstrate that growing older does not bring wisdom. Finally, on his fourth journey,
Gulliver sets out as captain of a ship, but after the mutiny of his crew and a long confinement in his cabin,
he arrives in an unknown land. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms, rational-thinking horses who rule,
and by Yahoos, brutish humanlike creatures who serve the Houyhnhnms. Gulliver sets about learning
their language, and when he can speak he narrates his voyages to them and explains the constitution of
England.
He is treated with great courtesy and kindness by the horses and is enlightened by his many conversations
with them and by his exposure to their noble culture. He wishes to remain with the Houyhnhnms, but is
exiled when the horses see that he resembles a Yahoo much due to his exposed body. Despite being
inconsolable, Gulliver decides to go. Making a boat out of scrap materials, he travels to a neighbouring
island where he is picked up by a Portuguese ship captain who treats him well. However, Gulliver cannot
help but now view the captain—and all humans—as embarrassingly Yahoolike. Gulliver ends his account
by asserting that, despite his doubts about colonialism in general, the places he has travelled to are legally
England's colonies.