![]() ![]() In turn, he helps them solve some of their problems, especially their conflict with their enemy, Blefuscu, an island across the bay from them. ![]() ![]() Gulliver is treated with compassion and concern. Gulliver's Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each adventure, is somehow able to return to his home in England where he recovers from these unusual experiences and then sets out again on a new voyage.īook I: When the ship Gulliver is traveling on is destroyed in a storm, Gulliver ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he awakes to find that he has been captured by Lilliputians, very small people - approximately six inches in height. Philosophical and Political Background of Gulliver's Travels. ![]()
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