This document provides a summary of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels. It discusses that the novel is both a satire of human nature and a parody of travel tales. It provides background on Swift and describes the plots and characters of the novel. Key points include Gulliver encountering societies of tiny Lilliputians, giant Brobdingnagians, intellectual yet irrational Laputans, and rational horses. Through these encounters, Gulliver comes to reject human society.

2. Gulliver's Travels (1726, a
mended 1735)
a novel by Irish writer and
clergyman Jonathan Swift is
both a satire on human
nature and a parody of the
traveller tales" literary sub-
genre.
 Cave hill in Belfast is thought
to be the inspiration for the
novel. Swift imagined that the
mountain resembled the
shape of a sleeping giant
safeguarding the city.

4.  Born30 November 1667
Dublin, Ireland
 Died19 October 1745 (aged 77)
Dublin, Ireland Pen name M. B. Drapier
 Lemuel Gulliver
 Isaac Bickerstaff
 Occupation Satirist
 essayist
 political pamphleteer
 poet
 priest
 Language English Nationality Irish Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin Notable
work(s)Gulliver's Travels
 A Modest Proposal
 A Tale of a Tub
 Drapier's Letters

5. Narrator and Symbolism
 Gulliver is the narrator, and it is told in first person.
 Symbol 1: The Yahoos symbolize humans for what we
truly are.
 Symbol 2: The way the storm takes him down when he
is traveling symbolizes the hardships of life.
 Symbol 3: The Liliputian’s represents the small
mindedness of human kind and how trivial we are.

6. Genre: Gulliver’s Travels is an obvious satire piece.
Setting: The setting of Gulliver’s Travels is mainly in
England, but also in the fictious countries of Liliput,
Brobdingnag, Blefuscu, Laputa, and the country of
the Houyhnhnms. in the past, during the 18th
Century.
Mood: The mood is adventurous, emotionally
affecting, and also I think ignorant at the same
time.

7. 1. The limits of human knowledge
2. No form of Government is ideal
3.Power may be great, but using it for what’s right is what is truly great.

9. The narrator and protagonist of
the story.
He is intelligent and well
educated, his perceptions are
naïve and gullible.
He has virtually no emotional
life, or at least no awareness of it,
and his comments are strictly
factual.

10.  Gulliver’s wife
 whose perfunctory
mention in the first
paragraphs of Gulliver’s
Travels demonstrates
how unsentimental and
unemotional Gulliver is.

11. Other Characters
THE EMPEROR - The ruler of Lilliput. Like all Lilliputians,
His power and majesty impress Gulliver deeply, but to
us he appears both laughable and sinister.
THE FARMER-Gulliver’s first master in Brobdingnag.
GLUMDALCLICTCH-farmer’s nine-year-old daughter, who
is forty feet tall.

12.  THE QUEEN- The queen of Brobdingnag, who is so
delighted by Gulliver’s beauty and charms that she
agrees to buy him from the farmer for 1,000 pieces of
gold.
 THE KING- The king of Brobdingnag, who, in contrast to
the emperor of Lilliput.
 LORD MUNODI- lord of Lagado, capital of the
underdeveloped land beneath Laputa , who hosts
Gulliver and gives him a tour of the country on Gulliver’s
third voyage.

13.  YAHOOS- Unkempt humanlike beasts who live in
servitude to the Houyhnhnm.
 HOYHNHMS- Rational horses who maintain a simple.
 GULLIVER’S HOUYHNHNM MASTER- who first discovers Gulliver
and takes him into his own home.
 DONPEDRO de MENDEZ- The Portuguese captain who takes
Gulliver back to Europe after he is forced to leave the
land of the Houyhnhnm.

14. BROBDINGNAGIANS- - Giants whom Gulliver meets on his
second voyage.
LILLIPUTIANS & BLEFUSCUDIANS- Two races of miniature
people whom Gulliver meets on his first voyage.
LAPUTANS- Absentminded intellectuals who live on the
floating island of Laputa.
RICHARD SYMPSON- Gulliver’s cousin, self-proclaimed
intimate friend.

15. JAMEE BATES- An eminent London surgeon under whom
Gulliver serves as an apprentice after graduating from
Cambridge.
ABRAHAM PANNELL- The commander of the ship on which
Gulliver first sails, the Swallow.
 WILLIAM PRICHARD- The master of the Antelope.
FLIMNAP- The Lord High Treasurer of Lilliput.
RELDRESAL- The Principal Secretary of Private Affairs in
Lilliput.

16. SKYRESH ROLGOLAM- The High Admiral of Lilliput.
TRAMECKSAN - Also known as the High-Heels.
SLAMECKSAN- The Low-Heels.

17.  Expository: Gulliver becomes a surgeon on a ship called swallow. His
business begins to fail.

 Rising Action: Gulliver begins to encounter different places.

 Climax: Gulliver really starts to reject human society because of all of his
travels. He calls the Brobdingnagian king ignorant because he refuses
Gulliver’s offer to teach him how to make gunpowder.

 Falling Action: After Gulliver encounters the horses during his voyage to
Houyhnhnm, he returns to England with a less than excited attitude, and
buys horses of his own that remind him of Houyhnhnm.

 Resolution: Gulliver’s epiphany is that human society is all gross. He
becomes a hermit and tries to find his own secluded land when the
Houyhnhnm’s reject his return. When he gets home to England, Gulliver
cannot even stand to be in the same room as his wife and children.

18. Gulliver washes onto the shore of Liliput during his
first voyage. The Liliputians are tiny, ignorant, and
petty. This is Gulliver’s first encounter with the
insignificance of human society and it is when he
first begins to despise it. This conflict is external
because of his first encounter with
Liliput, but internal because
of the slow but sure spiral
of misanthropy he gets into.

19. The overall meaning of the story is what human
society is like, and how no matter high and mighty
we claim to be, there is no such thing as a perfect
anything.
ALL throughout history there is conflict of culture
and conflict of individuals. During my life, I have
experienced both, just as everyone has. I do not
believe that a person can live without conflict
because conflict is the basis of human nature.