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GULLIVER’S TRAVELS

SUBJECTS — Literature/Ireland; World/Enlightenment;

SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING — Peace/Peacemakers; Courage in War; Humility;

MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS — General.

AGE : 7+; MPAA Rating — PG for thematic elements;

Satire; 1996; 178 minutes; Color. Available from Amazon.com .

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DESCRIPTION

Dr. Gulliver’s travels among the Lilliputians, the Brobdingnagians, the Houyhnhnms, and others, are vividly portrayed in this made for television adaptation of the classic novel by Jonathan Swift. Written in the tradition of the “traveler’s tale,” the story shows the progressive disillusion of an individual seeking to understand whether man’s corruption is innate or learned.

SELECTED AWARDS & CAST

Selected Awards: 1996 Emmy Awards: [All awards are in the Mini-Series/Special Category] Outstanding Mini-Series/Special, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mixing, Best Writing, Best Special Effects; Best Hair Styling; 1996 Emmy Awards Nominations: Best Direction; Best Cinematography; Best Single Camera Production; Best Costume Design; Best Sound; Best Supporting Actress (Woodard).

Featured Actors: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Ned Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Robert Hardy, Shashi Kapoor, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Phoebe Nicholls, Karyn Parsons, Edward Petherbridge, Kristin Scott Thomas, Omar Sharif, John Standing, John Wells, Richard Wilson, Alfre Woodard, Peter O’Toole, Edward Woodard, Phoebe Nicholls, Warwick Davis, Robert Hardy.

Director: Charles Sturridge.

BENEFITS OF THE MOVIE

This film is a gripping and effective adaptation of Swift’s classic novel and as such, successfully conveys many of his criticisms of Western Society. This version is especially noteworthy for its effective portrayal of the later portions of the book which are not usually presented to children.

Through class discussion and assignments at the end of the film, students will gain an understanding of satire as a literary form, the use of a symbol in literature, and knowledge about the benefits of social criticism in shaping new attitudes. Students will be encouraged to add their own thoughts to the ideas promulgated by important writers.

POSSIBLE PROBLEMS

MINOR. A frame-plot about Gulliver’s family and his struggle to stay out of a mental institution has been added to the original work but do not distract from Swift’s themes.

PARENTING POINTS

The most important concept in Gulliver’s travels is that our society is like Yahoo society in many ways. Remind your child of the Yahoo society shown in the film and tell him or her that Gulliver’s Travels was written to try to correct the optimistic attitudes toward human nature that were popular when Swift was writing.

HELPFUL BACKGROUND

Gulliver’s Travels was first published anonymously in 1726. A bitter satire of the society of the day, it was immediately popular. Unfortunately, a strong argument can be made that the failings of mankind and the ills of society to which Swift objected have improved only slightly during the 250 years since the book was written.

The Age of Enlightenment refers, approximately, to the century before the French Revolution (1789). During this period, advances in science and social theory gave rise to a faith in logic, progress, and technical achievement. There was a feeling that mankind was finally coming out of the Dark Ages. Newton’s discovery of gravity in 1687 and of the laws of motion and of the calculus exemplify the type of important scientific discoveries that launched the Enlightenment.

The optimism of the age is shown by these lines from Jonathan Swift’s good friend, the poet Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744):

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All Chance, direction that thou canst not see; All Discord, Harmony not understood, All partial Evil, universal Good…. One truth is clear, “Whatever is, is right.”

Swift sought to make a correction to the optimism of the Enlightenment. His goal was to reform society by showing the depravity of man and human culture. But some eight years after the first publication of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift, again writing as “Lemuel Gulliver,” added a preface to a new edition of the book. “Gulliver” first remarked that it had been a full seven months after the first publication of Gulliver’s Travels. “Gulliver” continued, stating that while his editor and friends had prevailed upon him to publish the story of his travels “on the motive of public good,” he had always thought:

… [T]he Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precepts or examples: and so it hath proved; for instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect: behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book hath produced one single effect according to my intentions: I desired you would let me know by a letter, when party and faction were extinguished; judges learned and upright; pleaders honest and modest, with some tincture of common sense; and Smithfield blazing with pyramids of law books; the young nobility’s education entirely changed; the physicians banished; the female Yahoos abounding in virtue, honour, truth and good sense; courts and levees of great ministers thoroughly weeded and swept; wit, merit and leaning rewarded; all disgracers of the press in prose and verse, condemned to eat nothing but their own cotton, and quench their thirst with their own ink. These, and a thousand other reformations, I firmly counted upon by your encouragement; as indeed they were plainly deducible from the precepts delivered in my book. And, it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject; if their natures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.

USING IN THE CLASSROOM

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Before Showing the Movie: In addition to your standard introduction to Gulliver’s Travels, ask the class to take brief notes of satiric scenes, events or characters shown in the movie. Tell students that there will be a class discussion after the movie in which the class will make a list of satiric scenes, events, and characters.

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. Elements of Yahoo society are familiar to everyone. What do you see around you in the behavior of others or in the news that are similar to Yahoo society?

Suggested Response:

Answers will vary. The responses must not be mean spirited but should point out the ignorance that drives much of our society today. They will note how people seem uneducated, uncultured and unthinking, as in the Yahoo population. Students may want to give examples of Yahoo-like behaviors from their school or local community rather than the nation as a whole. All illustrative examples are acceptable.

2. Gulliver’s Travels was published in 1726. After its publication, Swift wrote bitterly about how human nature would never change. He noted that none of the criticism he wrote about was taken seriously and there were no changes in the way the society conducted itself. In what ways, if any, do you think that now, after over almost 300 years since its publication, society has improved in ways Swift may have appreciated?

Dr. M.L. King said that “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice” and, generally, correct answers will be optimistic. However, there is still much to criticize about modern society.

Here are some talking points both pro and con:

We’re Less Yahooish – there’s hope after all: In 1726 there were no democratically elected governments existing in the world; today there are many and democratic government is recognized to be the best form of government. There is, in the modern world, universal suffrage, improvement in the lives of women, blacks, Hispanics and other minorities. Gays and lesbians are protected against discrimination and violence and in many places can marry. We have an active environmental movement. There is a growing movement of people seeking to correct the inhumane treatment of animals. While these movements have not brought as much change as many have hoped, they have pushed society in some good directions.

Internationally, Gandhian principles of non-violent mass action, as an alternative to violence, have become an effective way to change societies and governments. Examples are: U.S. Civil Rights Movement and changes in many governments, including the Soviet Union (Russia) in 1991 and many, many more. Human life is more valued. For example, in WWII, the Allies would take out whole cities in air raids killing tens of thousands of people in a day. Now, ten civilian casualties from a drone attack will cause a scandal.

We’re Just as Yahoo as Ever, OMG!: Gluttony! We’re undergoing an obesity epidemic. (Wouldn’t Swift have fun ridiculing our society for the fast food, the overeating etc.) Shallowness! Our society is increasingly focused on consumerism and movie stars. Greed: Greed and lack of financial responsibility are on the rise to such an extent that in 2008 we allowed them to crash our economy driving millions of people out of work and no one was punished!!! We ended up bailing out the idiots who caused the problem and, except for a very few, allowed them to keep their jobs; all of them got to keep their multi-million dollar unearned salaries and bonuses. Destroyers of the Environment: We are over-populating the earth and destroying it: look at Gobal Warming and the Pacific Gyre/Trash Vortex. The Victim Complex: People see themselves as victims and avoid personal responsibility for their actions.

3. [The purpose of this question is to develop a list, which the teacher can write on the board, of satiric scenes, events or characters shown in the film. Ask the class the following question and write brief 1 – 3 word indications of the responses on the board, until the class is out of ideas.] Give an example of a satiric image or scene from the film. In your example, show how Swift uses the devices of satire, such as exaggeration, name calling, reversing attributes, and changing a virtue to a vice.

Answers will vary.

Additional Discussion Questions.

1. Who was Swift referring to when he wrote about the Yahoos? What traits do you share with the Yahoos?

The Yahoos are uneducated, uncultured, or unthinking human beings. We are all Yahoos to one extent or another. The trick is to be as little like a Yahoo as possible.

2. For each society described in the movie, what ills in our society was Swift describing?

E.g., Yahoos: the insatiable need for more than enough and for sensual pleasure.

3. Why couldn’t the Houyhnhnms see that Gulliver was not a Yahoo? What was Gulliver trying to tell us with this literary device?

4. If you were Gulliver, would you have been willing to abandon hope of returning to your wife and family to live with the Houyhnhnms?

5. Do you agree with the Queen of the Brobdingnagians (it was a king in the book) that “I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth?”

6. Define satire as a literary form and give three examples of satiric images or scenes from the film. In your examples, show how Swift uses the devices of satire, such as exaggeration, name calling, reversing attributes, and changing a virtue to a vice.

7. Do you think that there is a reason that the hero of this story is called “Gulliver?” Explain the role of symbolism in literature.

8. How did Gulliver change as a result of his travels? Did his view of wealth and its relation to happiness change?

PEACE/PEACEMAKERS – COURAGE IN WAR

1. Swift defined a soldier as “a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.” Do you agree with this definition? Remember that Swift wrote at a time when wars were usually started only for conquest or loot. Does this make a difference in your analysis? What about soldiers serving in each of the following wars: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars; the Spanish American War, the wars against the Indians, the wars against Mexico, the Civil War (see Chamberlain’s speech to the Second Maine deserters in Gettysburg), or the First and Second World Wars? What about the other side in those conflicts?

2. Do you think that the failings of man and society described by Swift in his book have been corrected since Gulliver’s Travels first appeared in 1726? Do you think, on the other hand, that we are just as bad as we were back in the 18th century?

No questions at this time.

MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS (CHARACTER COUNTS)

Discussion Questions Relating to Ethical Issues will facilitate the use of this film to teach ethical principles and critical viewing. Additional questions are set out below.

1. Evaluate the societies of the Yahoos, the Lilliputians, the Brobdingnagians, and the Houynhynms. Which of the The Six Pillars of Character do they honor and which do they not comply with?

TRUSTWORTHINESS

(Be honest; Don’t deceive, cheat or steal; Be reliable — do what you say you’ll do; Have the courage to do the right thing; Build a good reputation; Be loyal — stand by your family, friends, and country)

(Treat others with respect; follow the Golden Rule; Be tolerant of differences; Use good manners, not bad language; Be considerate of the feelings of others; Don’t threaten, hit or hurt anyone; Deal peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements)

RESPONSIBILITY

(Do what you are supposed to do; Persevere: keep on trying!; Always do your best; Use self-control; Be self-disciplined; Think before you act — consider the consequences; Be accountable for your choices)

(Play by the rules; Take turns and share; Be open-minded; listen to others; Don’t take advantage of others; Don’t blame others carelessly)

(Be kind; Be compassionate and show you care; Express gratitude; Forgive others; Help people in need)

CITIZENSHIP

(Do your share to make your school and community better; Cooperate; Stay informed; vote; Be a good neighbor; Obey laws and rules; Respect authority; Protect the environment)

ASSIGNMENTS, PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

Any of the discussion questions can serve as a writing prompt. Additional assignments include:

1. Research the literary tool known as satire and write an expository essay in which you define satire as a literary form and give three examples of satiric works that are well known in literature. Then show the devices of satire, used by Swift in his novel, such as exaggeration, name calling, reversing attributes, and changing a virtue to a vice, as they are presented in the film. Cite specific scenes.

2. Explore the Internet to gather information that may explain why the hero of this story is called “Gulliver.” Write an essay in which you define symbolism as a literary device and explain its role in literature. Illustrate your understanding of the term with three examples of its use in the film, aside from the name Gulliver.

3. Write a new section into the film wherein Gulliver would travel to somewhere in your school, neighborhood or anywhere in your country, that would continue the satirical commentary on the behavior of the population. Use the narrative form, as if you were telling a story that a filmmaker could then convert to visual media. In your narrative describe action (including dialogue), reveal thoughts (including internal monologues), describe observations by the characters, use descriptive language (including images of people, places and things), and compare one thing to another.

See Additional Assignments for use with any Film that is a Work of Fiction .

To prepare for this assignment, have students complete TWM’s Exercise in “ Showing Rather than Telling ” When Writing a Narrative. Also, check out the Narrative Writing Lesson Plan .

BRIDGES TO READING

The first two chapters of Gulliver’s Travels are frequently recommended for reading by or to children. The book is renowned for its simple and clear prose.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Building vocabulary:.

yahoo, Lilliputian, misanthrope.

LINKS TO THE INTERNET

  • See the Gulliver’s Travels Wikipedia Page for information on the book and on Jonathan Swift.

CCSS ANCHOR STANDARDS

Multimedia: Anchor Standard #7 for Reading (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). (The three Anchor Standards read: “Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse media, including visually and quantitatively as well as in words.”) CCSS pp. 35 & 60. See also Anchor Standard # 2 for ELA Speaking and Listening, CCSS pg. 48.

Reading: Anchor Standards #s 1, 2, 7 and 8 for Reading and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). CCSS pp. 35 & 60.

Writing: Anchor Standards #s 1 – 5 and 7- 10 for Writing and related standards (for both ELA classes and for History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Classes). CCSS pp. 41 & 63.

Speaking and Listening: Anchor Standards #s 1 – 3 (for ELA classes). CCSS pg. 48.

Not all assignments reach all Anchor Standards. Teachers are encouraged to review the specific standards to make sure that over the term all standards are met.

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Ready to set sail with Gulliver? This pack offers creative and original activities that would work very well for making your movie-viewing experience more rigorous and engaging.

Student Experience : Students will get the most out of the film by digging into these materials. Even if you are reading the book but would like some new and creative tasks, this pack would work perfectly for those needs as well. Students will complete a travel log to document each place they "visit" along with Gulliver. After they have dissected the text in that way, you can choose to have them start analyzing the satire with the scaffolded activity included. Last, students make text-to-self connections with a travel/photo project of their own. Your students will love every activity, and you will love that the lessons are classroom-tested, standards-based, and ready-to-go.

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Gulliver's Travels

By jonathan swift, gulliver's travels essay questions.

Consider Gulliver's stated intentions in writing about his travels. What do the letters at the beginning of the work reveal about his character? What kind of a person is Gulliver? Why is he driven to the sea repeatedly even as his wife and children wait at home?

Answer: Gulliver repeatedly heeds the call to go off to sea. He claims that it is for commercial reasons, but Gulliver easily adapts to foreign cultures and usually does not mind seeing how another culture might be superior to his own. He is a reader and a traveler, not the kind of person who feels bound to traditional society.

Perspective and relativity are very important aspects of Gulliver's Travels. Compare Gulliver's experiences in the first and second parts of the novel. How does Gulliver act differently? How is he treated differently?

Answer: In the first part, Gulliver is the giant; in the second, everyone else is a giant. In both, he is the outsider and is treated as such. Consider the power relationships in each part and the ability of prudence and reason to overcome differences in perspective.

Bodily functions are described often and in great detail in the novel. Why is Swift so graphic?

Answer: Humanity's base functions comprise an important aspect of the novel? Swift pays great attention to the real world, the material world where people actually have to live their lives. In addition to the slapstick value of associating different things in the text with excrement, Swift reminds us that we are embodied mortals.

Is Gulliver a hero?

Answer: One may choose to compare Gulliver's actions and characteristics with other great characters such as Odysseus, who also has great sea adventures, or Jason and the Argonauts. Odysseus is crafty and strong, but Gulliver does not endure great hardships or overcome great enemies. This is a satire, not an epic, so we neither expect nor need a hero. Instead, Swift gives us a narrator who tells his own story as an everyman. The point is that he is not greatly different from an average human being, though he becomes much wiser and more thoughtful.

Is Gulliver a reliable narrator?

Answer: We generally trust his statements even though they are about fantastic beings and places. We do not need to believe that such things actually happened. Instead we should recall that Swift has important lessons to teach though the satire and the imaginary narrator of these fictional travels. Beyond that, we might trust Gulliver because of his thoughtfulness and prudence in some ways and because he is willing to relate good news and bad news, good and bad things about various kinds of people, in the same even tone.

Discuss Swift's connection to Gulliver.

Answer: The author need not share the narrator's opinions, but we always should keep in mind that it is Swift who has presented a narrator with certain opinions. Sometimes, Swift's joke is at Gulliver's expense. Also consider Gulliver's attack on humanity in Part IV.

What makes the Houyhnhnms' society ideal or a model for humans?

Answer: From Gulliver's perspective, the Houyhnhnms have established the ideal society. In fact, when he returns home to England, he cannot stand the sight or smell of humans and prefers to spend his time in the barn with his horses. The Houyhnhnms are more rational than the Yahoos and the other peoples in the novel. Note other ways that the Yahoos are unlike the Houyhnhnms.

How does Gulliver change as the novel progresses? For instance, at the end of the novel, when Gulliver is spending time in the barn with his horses, do we as readers identify with him, or are we repulsed?

Answer: Gulliver learns much about alternative ways of living and comes to appreciate the ways that various peoples have improved upon the ways that he knew in England. He also appreciates what it is like to be much larger or smaller, much better or worse, much more practical or less intelligent, than others. He has seen how what is an important difference within a culture seems petty to outsiders. Overall, he sees many things more objectively and has come to despise the usual ways of humans where he lives. The horses are not really like the Houyhnhnms, so we realize Gulliver's mistake, but we sense that Gulliver is better off with a lot of time to himself to contemplate his experiences and what they mean for living well.

Compare the satire in this novel with the argument in Swift's short essay, "A Modest Proposal," in which he declares that the Irish should eat their children in order to keep from starving.

Answer: "A Modest Proposal" purports to solve a number of problems with a simple but morally impossible solution. One's outrage at the proposed solution should be channeled into thinking about a real solution--including the moral elements of the solution. The novel takes on society and subgroups, and the ways we live, more than any particular problem, showing us more about human nature. This difference is in large measure a reflection of what can be done in an essay versus a novel.

Who is Swift making fun of and why?

Answer: A good answer will examine ways in which human nature as a whole is satirized as well as ways that the British are satirized and the ways that particular groups (such as intellectuals) are satirized. In each case, find something ironic or humorous, determine at whose expense we laugh, and decide why we are laughing. Sometimes we laugh because our intentions have unintended consequences, sometimes we are inconsistent or irrational, and sometimes we laugh when we see ourselves as outsiders would see us.

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Gulliver’s Travels Questions and Answers

The Question and Answer section for Gulliver’s Travels is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.

How old is Guillver?

An additional preface, attributed to Gulliver, added to a revised version of the work is given the fictional date of April 2, 1727, at which time Gulliver would have been about 65 or 66 years old.

What does Gulliver do with his penknife?

He cuts the strings that the rabble ringleaders were bound with.

How long does it take Gulliver to learn the language of Lilliput?

A I recall it was three weeks.

Study Guide for Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver's Travels study guide contains a biography of Jonathan Swift, literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis.

  • About Gulliver's Travels
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Essays for Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver's Travels essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

  • The Child-like Scientist: A Study of the Similarities Between Jonathan Swifts' Gulliver's Travels and Voltaire's Candide in Reference to Satire Developed through Naivete
  • Book Four of Swift's Gulliver's Travels: Satirical, Utopian, or Both?
  • Gulliver's Travels and the Refinement of Language and Society
  • The Duality of Book Four of Gulliver's Travels

Lesson Plan for Gulliver’s Travels

  • About the Author
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E-Text of Gulliver’s Travels

Gulliver's Travels e-text contains the full text of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.

  • THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER
  • PART I--A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
  • PART II--A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
  • PART III--A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB,
  • PART IV--A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS

Wikipedia Entries for Gulliver’s Travels

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Gulliver's Travels Quiz Questions And Answers

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Have you ever read the book Gulliver's Travels? Play the quiz based on this story and demonstrate your knowledge by correctly answering the questions asked here. Gulliver's Travels is a four-part satirical work written by Jonathan Swift, published anonymously in 1726, that involves several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. The quiz contains questions from the overall book. Do you think you can secure good marks on the test? Try it out and check how sharp your memory is. Good luck, buddy!

The people of Lilliput call Gulliver _____.

Man-Mountain

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Instead of killing him outright, the Lilliputians decide on which of the following punishments for Gulliver?

Exiling him

Cutting off his hair

Blinding him and slowly starving him to death

Poisoning him

The people of Lilliput are very _____.

The country of lilliput is _____ the country of blefuscu..

A long way from

Friendly with

At war with

When Gulliver wakes up in Lilliput, he cannot _______.

The argument between the big-endians and the small-endians was about ..., when gulliver first arrives in brobdingnag, he hides in a ____..

Cooking pot

____ is one of the most important officials who helps Gulliver at first.

Who said, "for six years we've had two political groups, the high-heels and the low-heels".

Gulliver's wife

The King of Blefuscu

The King of Brobdingnag thinks that political life in England is ____.

What does the farmer make gulliver do in order to earn money.

Perform tricks for spectators

Spy on neighboring farmers

Work in the fields

There are two groups of people in Lilliput who argue about ____.

Which color shoes to wear

Which end to break their eggs

Which language to speak

Which king and queen to choose

In Brobdingnag, a monkey takes Gulliver ____.

Over the fence

Down the garden

On to the roof

How does Gulliver end up stranded in Lilliput?

He survives a shipwreck.

His crew abandons him.

He is dropped there by an enormous eagle.

He stops there for provisions and is trapped while he sleeps.

What is the line of doctrine over which the Blefuscudians and Lilliputians differ?

"All true believers shall break their eggs at the small end."

"All true believers shall break their eggs at the big end."

"All true believers shall break their eggs as they see fit."

"All true believers shall break their eggs at the convenient end."

Who is Gulliver's main enemy in the royal court of Brobdingnag?

An example of a metaphor in the book is.

The wet flame flickered in darkness.

There are millions of things to do.

"Life is a journey, travel it well."

All of the above

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  • Full Title: Gulliver’s Travels , or, Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships
  • When Written: 1720-1725
  • Where Written: Dublin, Ireland
  • When Published: 1726
  • Literary Period: Augustan
  • Genre: Satire
  • Setting: England and the imaginary nations of Lilliput, Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms
  • Climax: Gulliver’s decision to reject humankind and try his best to become a Houyhnhnm
  • Point of View: First person

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By Gulliver, About Gulliver. Although contemporary editions of Gulliver’s Travels have Jonathan Swift’s name printed as author on the cover, Swift published the first edition under the pseudonym Lemuel Gulliver.

Instant Classic. Gulliver’s Travels was an immediate success upon its first publication in 1726. Since then, it has never been out of print.

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