This document summarizes the key cultural aspects portrayed in the four books of Gulliver's Travels. In the first voyage to Lilliput, the culture is described as highly superstitious with unusual burial practices. The people are depicted as hospitable. The second voyage to Brobdingnag shows a colonial culture and focus on government needs like sense, reason and action. The third voyage to Laputa depicts a culture with no place for emotion, and an exaggerated intellectual life focused on music and mathematics. The final voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms portrays a culture without natural affections or fear of death, and governed strictly by reason.