— Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Book 1 A Voyage to Lilliput Summary, Analysisello and welcome to the Discourse. All four parts or ooks of Gulliver’s Travels were published in the year 726. The title of the first book of Gulliver’s Travels was Voyage to Lilliput. n the first part, Jonathan Swift introduces the protagonist emuel Gulliver resembling a common man. Being an ‘-veryman, Gulliver is a gullible, yet honest person who nnot tell lies and always stands for right. Swift then uses ulliver’s account of events for his satire that included a ockery of the English government, the English court, the oyal Society, Science, Religion, and contemporary iterary works too.haracters of A Voyage to Lilliput: emuel Gulliver is a British surgeon living with his ife Mary Burton Gulliver and his children. Gulliver has o emotional life and his wife plays little role in the whole tory. Richard Sympson is a cousin of Gulliver who edits is travel book. The Lilliputiams are the inhabitants of the trange island that Gulliver reaches after a shipwreck they ‘e extremely small creatures just 6 inches tall. e Lilliputian Emperor is friendly and generous with ulliver as he exploits Gulliver’s might to defeat his memies but when Gulliver refuses to participate in the war gainst Belfuscians, the king grows petulant, cold, and engeful. ae Lilliputian Queen is an adamant lady who never orgives Gulliver for urinating on her chamber despite nowing that it saved her life. Filmnap is the treasurer of e Lilliputian king who dislikes Gulliver as he suspects at Gulliver is having a secret affair with his ife. Skyresh Bolgolam is the admiral of Lilliput and he so dislikes Gulliver. Redresal is the Principle secretary f Lilliput who is friendly towards Gulliver. He suggests jutting out Gulliver’s eyes as a “gentler” alternative to leath. However, there are many supporters of Gulliver. man of the court warns him about the court’s plan to ut out his eyes. Belfuscians are similar creatures of s! eights who live on the neighboring island of Lilliput. ple Belfuscian King takes Gulliver in after he escapes rom the Lilliputians and helps him prepare for his voyage ack to England. jummary of A Voyage to Lilliput ie book begins as Richard Sympson introduces Lemuel ulliver, his cousin as a truthful, honest, and trustworthy itizen of England. He vouches for the honesty of Gulliver d says that his fellow townsmen would often emphasize omething’s truth by saying “it was as true as if Mr. ulliver had spoken it.” He informs that he is editing the avel account of Gulliver for people’s entertainment. ulliver isn’t too happy with the edited version of hisea travel account as he admonishes Richard Sympson for ding a passage praising the English Queen Gulliver says at though he respects the English Queen he would never ave praised her in that manner. He further accuses the ited version of his sea travel as libelous and says that obody trust’s its veracity. The edited work of Richard troduces Gulliver as a common man of England who is a surgeon. Though other surgeons are making good money, ulliver is suffering penury because he is too honest and nnot tell lies and cheat patients to make money. Thus, he lecides to change his profession and become a ship urgeon to earn money.e learned mathematics and navigation at an early age ecause he always wished to go on long sea travels. He joins the ship of Captain Robinson for a six-year trip to the ea. However, he faces a shipwreck on his very first sea avel and he is the only survivor who reaches the shore of unknown island and passes out due to exhaustion. en Gulliver awakens, he finds himself lying on his ack. As he tries to stand up, he realizes that he has been ied with innumerable tiny threads and he is unable to ove. He feels something moving on his chin and when he Ibserves, he finds that he is surrounded by strange human-like’ creatures who are just six inches long.i eing a meticulous person, Gulliver has a habit of giving xact measurements. Gulliver is surprised and he roars out ing to free himself. He succeeds in freeing his left arm ut then the tiny creatures start shooting arrows at him ntil he lies calmly. The tiny creatures then loosen some of e threads and offer him food and a beverage to drink. ulliver wishes to grab some of them and crush them but e restrains himself while the tiny creatures dress his ounds. Being too exhausted, Gulliver falls asleep again id the tiny creatures load him on a large carriage and take im to a tall old temple which is the tallest building in their ity. Gulliver is tied to the temple. The emperor along wi ie whole crowd of citizens comes to see him.‘veryone is astonished by seeing this humongous giant ho looks like them. While Gulliver becomes a piece of e exhibition, some onlookers try to shoot him down. hey are captured by the soldiers and then the Emperor rders them to be handover to Gulliver. Gulliver threatens em and shows them his pocket knife and then releases em. Everyone gets impressed by Gulliver’s generosity. e emperor and his Principle secretary Redresal become iendly to Gulliver whom they call the ‘man mountain.’ ulliver starts learning the lilliputian language. The mperor discusses the matter of state management with© contestants and courtiers perform rope dances and ompetitions of thread-jumping and the member who wins e competition gets a higher position. Thus, the Lilliputia: tate uses tests of physical power and agility (rather than ests of moral power and reason) to determine who will old its governmental offices. Then the Emperor asks ulliver to stand upright while he orders his army to march rough Gulliver’s legs. He orders the soldiers to treat ulliver decently “upon pain of death.” The emperor is not ncerned that Gulliver is so big and powerful that he uld easily stamp everyone to death. However, he is ncerned about Gulliver’s discomfort because he treat jim as his property now.7 edresal visits him and informs him about the two great angers the Lilliputians face. The first great evil is the ner struggle of the Lilliputian court between e Tramecksan (high-heeled shoe-wearers) ind Slamecksan (low-heeled shoe-wears). The emperor avors the Slamecksan people but the Tramecksan people e greater in number and there are dangers of rebellion. ie second great evil is the danger of an impending invasion from Belfuscu, “the other great empire of the iverse.” Gulliver realizes that no Lilliputian believes him out the other world of normal human beings. The imosity with Belfuscu is rooted in a disagreement ov hether to break eggs on the bigger or smaller end.ome Lilliputians too believed that the egg should be roken from the bigger end and these Big-Endians have joined Belfuscian forces while Lilliputians believe that the gg should be broken from the smaller end. This differenc as caused many wars between the Belfuscu and Lilliput. It is an allegory to the religious wars of Europe. Gulliver onceives a plan to cross the channel between Lilliput and elfusu and steal the warships of Belfuscu, making them eak. He manages to do so while Belfuscian soldiers ttack him with arrows. The Emperor is too happy by this d offers the title of “Nardac’ to Gulliver which means the atest warrior. Later on, the Lilliputian Emperor asks ulliver to help him in enslaving the Belfuscians.ulliver, however, rejects this and says that it will be immoral and this annoys the Lilliputian Emperor. oreover, Lilliputian admiral, Skyresh Bolgolam is also jealous of Gulliver because of his title. Treasurer Filmnap so becomes Gulliver’s enemy because he thinks that his ife is too much interested in Gulliver. Meanwhile, the elfuscu king is too impressed by Gulliver’s strength and realizes that Belfuscu cannot confront Lilliput now. He ends messengers of peace who are very warm towards ulliver and invites him to Belfuscu. The emperor eluctantly allows Gulliver to visit Belfuscu while olgolam and Filmnap start spreading rumors that Gulli is siding with the Belfuscian king.me night, there is a fire in the palace and the Lilliputians ‘equest Gulliver to go help stop it. The fire was due to a areless maid who fell asleep reading a novel by andlelight. Gulliver, having no instrument to put out the ire, extinguishes it by urinating on it. Though he has saved ie palace, Gulliver knows that he has also broken the law y urinating in the palace. Still, he feels better when he ‘eceives word that the emperor is ordering Gulliver to be ardoned. However, the Lilliputian Queen feels disgusted id she is not ready to pardon Gulliver. ulliver describes the social life of Lilliputians and their legal system.f a person is found innocent by trial, the accuser is entenced to death and the innocent person is paid enerously for the inconveniences suffered. Fraud and gratitude are likewise capital crimes punished by death. itizens who follow the law throughout their lives have the itle snilpall (which means ‘legal’) added to their name and e accorded privileges. He notices that while the Emperor ippoints persons of agility at higher positions without nsidering their moral values, Lilliputians in general hire person considering that person’s morals more than they lo his abilities. He notices that all children including girls e raised by professors and servants in public nurserie: id girls are raised to be equally brave and smart as bo:re, there is no discrimination over gender. Gulliver is still naware if he will be pardoned or punished for urinating i ie palace. He plans his visit to Belfuscu but on the same ight, a man from court visits him and informs him that thi council had decided to punish him by death Redresal, eing a friend of Gulliver stood in his defense but he could lo nothing. The council first decided to execute him stantly but then they were worried about the flesh that ill rot. Thus, the council has decided to put out his eyes d then subsequently slowly starve him to death. The man f the court tells him that the Lilliputian council will ecute the punishment within three days and leaves ulliver to decide for himself.ulliver decides to save his life by running away to elfuscu. He leaves a note that he’s left early for his trip t lefuscu. ulliver is warmly welcomed in Belfuscu and Gulliver jotices that the Belfuscian king and people, in general, are ore moral than the Lilliputians. From the Belfuscian shore, Gulliver notices an abandoned canopy, a human at, and retrieves it. The Belfuscian king helps him in ending the canopy. Meanwhile, the Lilliputian Emperor alizes that Gulliver has run away. He sends a messenger fo the Belfuscian king to hand over Gulliver to them. The elfuscian king politely rejects the notice and answers ick that Gulliver has been friendly to the Belfuscianeople and hence they won’t return him back. Then the elfuscian king arranges for sufficient food and drinks to e stored in the canopy and hastens his departure for ngland. ulliver continues to strive to return back to his world and entually is picked by an English merchant ship. He ‘turns to his home and tells the story of Lilliput to his wife d children but none of them actually believe him. Then ie shows them a few tiny animals of Lilliput that he took ith him. e stays with the family for two months and then decides return to the sea again.