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1. Group: 2

3. Lemuel Gulliver, a surgeon and
sea captain who visits remote
regions of the world sets off on
the ship Antelope to the South
Seas, but strong winds wreck
it.
Gulliver lands on an island and
when he wakes up he finds
himself tied to the ground with
innumerable tiny threads.
A large number of little men…
Arrows-little more than
pinpricks.

4. He is given a house, an old church, but Gulliver is still tied
to the wall of the church
Lilliputians think he is dangerous. Some men
attack Gulliver and when the king’s men
throw them to Gulliver, he pretends he is
going to eat them, but then sets them free.
plan to take him to the king
but still tied with strings.
Hospitality
They bring him food and drink as they are hospitable
Gulliver stays still not to get hurt
The Lilliputians are astonished by Gulliver’s size but treat him gently.

5. Gulliver is taken into the capital city by a vast
wagon the Lilliputians have specially built.
Political affiliations-Tories, Whigs

6. He was eventually
released after
surrendering his
weapons and
signing articles of
allegiance to
Lilliput, he is
granted his liberty.
Gulliver hands
over his
belongings: his
sword and his
guns.
Gulliver is kind,
so the king will
not kill him, and
he teaches
Gulliver their
language.

7.  War
• Gulliver
learns
about the
war
between
Lilliput
and
Blefuscu.
 National
Resource
• Eventually Gulliver
becomes a national
resource, used by
the army in its war
against the people
of Blefuscu. He
successfully assists
Lilliput by stealing
the
neighboring Blefusc
ans’ war ships and
receives a high
honor.
 The Lilliputian
King
• The king is
happy, but as he
is very ambitious
he wants Gulliver
to help him kill
the Big-enders,
enemies of his
people, the Little-
enders. Gulliver
refuses to do so.
 Matter of
religious
doctrine
• People of
Blefuscu
whom the
Lilliputians
hate for
doctrinal
differences
concerning
the proper
way to crack
eggs

8. The people
from
Blefuscu and
Lilliput finally
put an end to
their war.
An unnamed man
of the court informs
Gulliver that the
Lilliputian court
plans to accuse
him of treason for
putting out a fire

9. • Details about Gulliver’s character
• Gulliver’s journey to lilliput was full of experiences and
adventures, which formed the most attractive part of the
whole book.
• Gulliver’s Travels combines adventure with savage satire,
mocking English customs and the politics of the day.
Social
Satire
Political
Satire

10. Much of Gulliver’s first voyage to
Lilliput criticizes aspects of 18th
century English society, particularly
demonstrates court intrigue and the
arbitrary inconsistency of court
favor as a crucial shortcoming.
This is expressed in the peculiar
customs of the Lilliputians, whose
ministers are appointed dependent
on how high they can jump over a
rope.

11. • Furthermor
e the nation
of Lilliput
has been at
war with
their
neighbours
from
Blefuscu
since a
quarrel
broke out
about which
end of an
egg to
break first.
• To Gulliver
this issue
might seem
ridiculous
and an
absurd
reason for
going to war,
but to Swift
these two
nations may
symbolize
England and
France and
hence
satirizes the
needless
fighting
between the
two nations.
• Swift goes on
mocking politics
by drawing a
parallel between
the parties of
Lilliput and
Blefuscu and
England. The
two political
parties
in Gulliver’s
Travels being
differentiated by
the height of
their heels
points out how
little substantial
difference there
was between
Whig and Tory in
England,

12. Concerning the political application
of this chapter, note that Gulliver is
confined in a building that was
emptied
Because a notorious murder was
committed there.
The building probably represents
Westminster Hall, where Charles I
was tried and sentenced to death.

13. Perhaps the key aspect of the novel here
is obviously its satire: it means that we
can never be sure when Swift is being
serious and when he is pulling our leg,
when he is inviting us to share Gulliver’s
views and when he wishes us to long to
clout the silly fool round the head. That,
too, is one of the signs of a timeless
novel: its multifaceted quality.

15. Lemuel Gulliver
The narrator
and
protagonist
of the story.
Here
Gulliver's
possesses
moral
superiority to
the petty.
Gulliver is
also, as
might be
expected,
"gullible." He
believes
what he is
told. He is an
honest man
Swift, through
Gulliver, makes
clear that the
normal person is
concerned with
honor, gratitude,
common sense,
and kindness. The
representative
person (a
Lilliputian) is a
midget,
figuratively and
literally,
compared with a
moral person
(Gulliver).

16.  The
Lilliputians
are men six
inches in
height but
possessing
all the
pretension
and self-
importance
of full-sized
men.
 They are
mean and
nasty, vicious,
morally
corrupt,
hypocritical
and deceitful,
jealous and
envious, filled
with greed and
ingratitude —
they are, in
fact,
completely
human.
 Swift uses
the Lilliputians
to satirize
specific
events and
people in his
life.

17. The Lilliputian King is
initially welcoming,
generous, and friendly
with Gulliver
But he grows petulant,
cold, and vengeful
after Gulliver won’t
help him enslave the
Blefuscians.

18. The first journey of Gulliver is very important for the
development of plot as in first voyage he begins the
story of his journeys in the typical pattern of the
travel narratives of his time. He tells the reader a
great deal of background information By setting up
the narrator as a normal person in the beginning of
the book, Swift helps readers to sense that Gulliver
is trustworthy and a regular guy whom they can
relate to.

19. He uses the Lilliputians to show that
English politicians were bloody-minded
and treacherous.
In detail, he records the bloody and
cruel methods that the Lilliputians plan
to use to kill Gulliver; then he comments
ironically on the mercy, decency.
The journey to Lilliput also
made Gulliver aware of his own
personality. He learned that morality is
more than anything to a person is..

20. • He uses the Lilliputians to show that English
politicians were bloody-minded and
treacherous.
• In detail, he records the bloody and cruel methods
that the Lilliputians plan to use to kill Gulliver; then
he comments ironically on the mercy, decency.
• The journey to Lilliput also made Gulliver aware of
his own personality. He learned that morality is
more than anything to a person is..

21. He is curious about the Lilliputians, their
culture, language, and ways of living.
Gulliver's curiosity and thirst for
knowledge were established in the first
few paragraphs of the novel.
Or perhaps Gulliver enjoys the power
that comes with being a giant. Even as
a prisoner in Lilliput, Gulliver is the
most powerful being on the island.
He learned that a person should
not fulfill the wrong orders of
anyone, as he disobeyed the
Emperor in the voyage
to Lilliput.

22. In Part I, many of the things Gulliver
experiences can be linked to actual
historical events of Swift's time.
Swift uses the Lilliputians to satirize
specific events and people in his life.
The plot development is often the
opposite of what readers expect.

23. • “The Man-
Mountain shall not
depart from our
dominions, without
our license under
our great seal”
1st
• “He shall not
presume to come
into our metropolis,
without our express
order; at which time
the inhabitants shall
have two hours
warning to keep
within their doors”
2nd • “The said Man-
Mountain shall
confine his walks
to our principal
high roads, and
not offer to walk or
lie down in a
meadow or field of
corn.”
3rd

24. • “As he walks
the said roads,
he shall take
the utmost
care not to
trample upon
the bodies of
any of our
loving
subjects, their
horses, or
carriages, nor
take any of our
said subjects
into his hands,
without their
own consent.”
4th
• “If an express
require
extraordinary
dispatch, the
Man-Mountain
shall be obliged
to carry in his
pocket the
messenger and
hors a six days'
journey once in
every moon, and
return the said
messenger back
safe to our
Imperial
Presence.”
5th • “He shall be
our ally
against our
enemies in
the island
of Blefescu,
and do his
utmost to
destroy
their fleet,
which is
now
preparing
to invade
us.”
6th

25. • “That the said Man-
Mountain shall, at his times
of leisure, be aiding and
assisting to our workmen, in
helping to raise certain
great stones, towards
covering the wall of the
principal park, and other our
royal buildings.”
7th
• “ That the said Man-Mountain
shall, in two moons' time, deliver
in an exact survey of the
circumference of our dominions by
a computation of his own paces
round the coast. Lastly, That upon
his solemn oath to observe all the
above articles, the said Man-
Mountain shall have a daily
allowance of meat and drink
sufficient for the support of 1728
of our subjects, with free access to
our Royal Person, and other marks
of our favor."
8th

27. Much of Swift's satirical
focus is on people who
cannot see past their own
ways, their own power, or
their own beliefs.
Readers can see
themselves in some of
this satire.
E.g. in chapter 1 Lilliputians,
who have wars over the
correct way to cut open an
egg

28. In Gulliver's
Travels the
reader comes
to realize that
much in the
world really is
relative.
Gulliver's first
journey lands
him in Lilliput
where he is
called the
Mountain Man,
because the
people there are
only five to six
inches tall.

29. Truth and deception are
prominent themes in Gulliver's
Travels.
Lying does appear within
Gulliver's journeys.
In Lilliput he learns that for the
Lilliputians lying is a capital
punishment and is considered
worse than stealing

30. By placing Gulliver amongst people
of extremely different physical
circumstances than his own,
Gulliver’s adventures dramatize the
distinction between moral and
physical power.
In Lilliput, Gulliver’s huge size
advantage over the Lilliputians would
make it easy for him to treat them like
inhuman vermin and to assert himself
against them by physical force.

31. As Gulliver travels from society to society, he
observes each one’s organization in detail and
compares and contrasts it with the English
state.
The Lilliputian king’s initial generosity
and warmth towards the foreign Gulliver
The societies also demonstrate the unfortunate
outcome of certain utopian ideals. Lilliput separates
its children from their birth parents (as Plato
himself advised in), but the practice does not end
up yielding very mature or reasonable adults

32. Otherness plays
a large part in
Gulliver's
Travels.
Throughout his
journeys Gulliver
never quite fits
in, regardless of
how long he
stays.
Partly this
is a matter
of size.
In Lilliput,
he is the
only giant.

33. • The Lilliputians
symbolize humankind's
wildly excessive pride in
its own puny existence.
Symbolism
• Swift fully intends the irony
of representing the tiniest
race visited by Gulliver as
by far the most
vainglorious and smug,
both collectively and
individually.
Irony