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    Gulliver's Travels recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, an English surgeon who embarks on four voyages that take him to fantastical lands inhabited by tiny people, giants, flying islands, and rational horses. On his first voyage, Gulliver is shipwrecked and found by the tiny people of Lilliput, where he assists them in their wars but is later condemned as a traitor. He escapes to the land of the giants called Brobdingnag, where he is repulsed by the physicality of the giants. Later voyages take him to the flying island of Laputa and lands inhabited by immortal old people and rational horses who see humans as Yahoos

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    Gullivers Travels recounts the story of Lemuel Gulliver, a practical-minded

    Englishman trained as a surgeon who takes to the seas when his business fails.
    In a deadpan first-person narrative that rarely shows any signs of self-reflection
    or deep emotional response, Gulliver narrates the adventures that befall him on
    these travels.

    Gullivers adventure in Lilliput begins when he wakes after his shipwreck to find
    himself bound by innumerable tiny threads and addressed by tiny captors who
    are in awe of him but fiercely protective of their kingdom. They are not afraid to
    use violence against Gulliver, though their arrows are little more than pinpricks.
    But overall, they are hospitable, risking famine in their land by feeding Gulliver,
    who consumes more food than a thousand Lilliputians combined could. Gulliver
    is taken into the capital city by a vast wagon the Lilliputians have specially built.
    He is presented to the emperor, who is entertained by Gulliver, just as Gulliver is
    flattered by the attention of royalty. Eventually Gulliver becomes a national
    resource, used by the army in its war against the people of Blefuscu, whom the
    Lilliputians hate for doctrinal differences concerning the proper way to crack
    eggs. But things change when Gulliver is convicted of treason for putting out a
    fire in the royal palace with his urine and is condemned to be shot in the eyes
    and starved to death. Gulliver escapes to Blefuscu, where he is able to repair a
    boat he finds and set sail for England.

    After staying in England with his wife and family for two months, Gulliver
    undertakes his next sea voyage, which takes him to a land of giants called
    Brobdingnag. Here, a field worker discovers him. The farmer initially treats him
    as little more than an animal, keeping him for amusement. The farmer eventually
    sells Gulliver to the queen, who makes him a courtly diversion and is entertained
    by his musical talents. Social life is easy for Gulliver after his discovery by the
    court, but not particularly enjoyable. Gulliver is often repulsed by the physicality
    of the Brobdingnagians, whose ordinary flaws are many times magnified by their
    huge size. Thus, when a couple of courtly ladies let him play on their naked
    bodies, he is not attracted to them but rather disgusted by their enormous skin
    pores and the sound of their torrential urination. He is generally startled by the
    ignorance of the people hereeven the king knows nothing about politics. More
    unsettling findings in Brobdingnag come in the form of various animals of the
    realm that endanger his life. Even Brobdingnagian insects leave slimy trails on
    his food that make eating difficult. On a trip to the frontier, accompanying the
    royal couple, Gulliver leaves Brobdingnag when his cage is plucked up by an
    eagle and dropped into the sea.

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    Next, Gulliver sets sail again and, after an attack by pirates, ends up in Laputa,
    where a floating island inhabited by theoreticians and academics oppresses the
    land below, called Balnibarbi. The scientific research undertaken in Laputa and in
    Balnibarbi seems totally inane and impractical, and its residents too appear
    wholly out of touch with reality. Taking a short side trip to Glubbdubdrib, Gulliver
    is able to witness the conjuring up of figures from history, such as Julius Caesar
    and other military leaders, whom he finds much less impressive than in books.
    After visiting the Luggnaggians and the Struldbrugs, the latter of which are senile
    immortals who prove that age does not bring wisdom, he is able to sail to Japan
    and from there back to England.

    Finally, on his fourth journey, Gulliver sets out as captain of a ship, but after the
    mutiny of his crew and a long confinement in his cabin, he arrives in an unknown
    land. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms, rational-thinking horses who rule,
    and by Yahoos, brutish humanlike creatures who serve the Houyhnhnms.
    Gulliver sets about learning their language, and when he can speak he narrates
    his voyages to them and explains the constitution of England. He is treated with
    great courtesy and kindness by the horses and is enlightened by his many
    conversations with them and by his exposure to their noble culture. He wants to
    stay with the Houyhnhnms, but his bared body reveals to the horses that he is
    very much like a Yahoo, and he is banished. Gulliver is grief-stricken but agrees
    to leave. He fashions a canoe and makes his way to a nearby island, where he is
    picked up by a Portuguese ship captain who treats him well, though Gulliver
    cannot help now seeing the captainand all humansas shamefully Yahoolike.
    Gulliver then concludes his narrative with a claim that the lands he has visited
    belong by rights to England, as her colonies, even though he questions the whole
    idea of colonialism.

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    It is not a Novel, it is a Satire

    BY -SALEM-, MAY 17, 2013

    The type of work is Satire, not Novel, because it happened before the Novel
    tradition started, and because it is a parody.

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