Our hero, Lemuel Gulliver, starts out his adventures with a description of his origins: he's from Nottinghamshire

in England, and he
has spent several years at college at Cambridge.
Sadly, Gulliver's father runs out of money for young Gulliver's education, so he sends Gulliver as an apprentice (read: someone who
works for a skilled tradesman in exchange for first-hand, practical training in said trade) to Mr. James Bates, a London surgeon.
Gulliver also spends a lot of time studying math and navigation, because he wants to travel.
Eventually, with the financial help of his uncle, his father, and some other relatives, Gulliver travels to Leyden (now Leiden, a city in
Holland), where there is a famous university known for its teaching of medicine.
After studying at Leyden for a couple of years, Gulliver returns to England, where Mr. Bates gives Gulliver a recommendation to join
the crew of the ship the Swallow as a surgeon.
Gulliver travels for three years on the Swallow and gets as far as the Levant (a.k.a. the eastern portion of the Mediterranean and the
areas that border it, including parts of Egypt, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, and Turkey.)
He comes back to London and settles down to marry Mrs. Mary Burton, who comes with a dowry (read: a certain amount of money
settled on her by her family once she marries) of 400 pounds nice for Gulliver!
Gulliver's former boss and current patron, Mr. Bates dies a couple of years later, and Gulliver's business starts to go bad.
Gulliver decides to go to sea again, traveling this time to the Far East and the West Indies.
He spends a lot of time reading while he's at sea; when Gulliver is ashore, he enjoys observing the customs of the people he meets.
But even the sea starts to lose its interest for Gulliver, and he decides to head home to London to hang out with his wife.
Gulliver moves his business to various parts of London, but he continues to fail at making a living, so he hits the sea once again three
years later.
He sets sail with Captain William Prichard on the Antelope, heading to the South Seas (in other words, the oceans south of the
equator.)
As you might expect, things go wrong. All of the following happens inone long paragraph:
A storm blows up.
The ship winds up in the Northwest of "Van Diemen's Land" what we now call Tasmania, an area in the southeast of Australia.
12 members of the ship's crew die and the rest are weakened by hard work and lack of food.
High currents and rough seas make it hard for the crew to get from the ship's anchorage point to shore.
So the Antelope sends six crew members, Gulliver included, in a small rowboat to go to shore.
The boat capsizes and all of the six sailors except for Gulliver drown.
In the water, Gulliver totally loses track of where he is, but he still manages eventually to find his way to a shore.
Gulliver's feeling a bit sleepy from all of this exercise and the half-pint of brandy he drank onboard ship before getting into this
rowboat, so he lies down to sleep.
He wakes up at dawn after a lovely nap in the grass.
Gulliver tries to stand up, but he can't move at all. He's stuck lying on his back.
Gulliver notices that his arms and legs and even his long hair all appear to be tied down.
He can't look right or left, so he has no idea what is happening, but he does feel something moving across his chest towards his chin.
Gulliver turns his eyes down to look over his chin and he sees a tiny, tiny human being, no bigger than the length of Gulliver's finger.
The tiny fellow is carrying a tiny, tiny bow with lots of tiny, tiny arrows and there are also around 40 other tiny guys following him.
(Incidentally, these tiny people are the Lilliputians residents of Swift's made-up island of Lilliput.)
Gulliver yells in fright at the sight of all of these tiny people. At this roar, they jump or fall back in fear.
Gulliver manages to break the strings tying down his left arm, but the strings attached to his hair really hurt, so he can still barely
turn his head.
The little people all run away a second time and they shoot his left hand full of about a hundred arrows. Some of them try to stick
his sides with itsy bitsy spears, but they can't get through his leather vest.
Gulliver decides to lie still until nighttime, when he might be able to use his left hand to free himself.
But he can hear a huge number of people massing: more and more of the little people arrive, and they start building something near
him.
It appears to be a stage, from which an important little person recites a speech to Gulliver. Gulliver can't understand the speech, but
he does hear the words, "Langro Dehul san" (1.1.5). Gulliver deliberately acts as submissive as he can during this to indicate that he
intends no harm.
Gulliver is hungry, thirsty, and really has to pee, so he gestures with his left hand that he needs to eat and drink.
The important little person making speeches is called the "Hurgo" (1.1.5), and he orders his people to bring Gulliver food.
All the tiny people are amazed at how much Gulliver can eat and drink.
The tiny people keep dancing around in joy as they watch him stuffing himself and drinking their wine.
(By the way, Gulliver keeps talking about "hogsheads" of wine. A hogshead is a large barrel that, in normal human terms, holds many
gallons. For these people, a hogshead holds less than half a pint.) They all shout, "Hekinah Degul."
Gulliver has to admit that he's impressed: these people seem totally fine with climbing onto his body and walking around even
though they know his left hand is free and even though he's a giant to them.
After Gulliver finishes eating, a representative of the Imperial House climbs the scaffolding to talk to Gulliver.
Through sign language, the representative of the Emperor manages to get across that Gulliver must be carried as their prisoner to
the capital city about half a mile away. Gulliver wants to go free, but the Emperor won't allow it. Gulliver will be well treated,
though.
Gulliver thinks about fighting, but changes his mind when he sees the number of little people has increased. He agrees.
The Hurgo and all of his people climb down and get out of the way.
The strings binding Gulliver's left side are loosened enough that Gulliver can roll over and pee (or "make water," as he puts it).
The little people also treat Gulliver's tiny arrow wounds, which makes his injuries stop stinging.
So all in all, what with the food, the peeing, and the medical treatment, Gulliver stops freaking out and starts feeling sleepy again.
He crashes for about eight hours thanks, he discovers later, to a sleeping potion in his wine.
And that's the end of this super-long paragraph!
Gulliver discovers later that the Emperor is the one who ordered that Gulliver be tied up and fed in this way so that he could be
brought to the capital city.
Gulliver says, you may think this whole drugging thing seems like a cowardly thing do, but really, it's smart. After all, if they had tried
to kill Gulliver as he slept, their tiny weapons would have woken him up. His rage might have given him the strength to break the
ropes they used to tie him.
These tiny people are great mechanics and already have lots of machines designed for hauling trees and other heavy things.
Using a system of pullies, they hoist Gulliver onto one of these machines and tie him to it.
1,500 of the Emperor's horses, all of which are about four and a half inches high, drag Gulliver to the capital city.
Gulliver falls asleep yet again (what is up with this guy?), but he wakes up about four hours into their trip. Gulliver awakens because
one of his guards climbs onto Gulliver's face and sticks his spear up Gulliver's left nostril. Gulliver sneezes violently, and the guards
sneak off.
Finally, Gulliver and all of his guards make it to the capital city, where they are met by the Emperor and his Court.
Gulliver is tied to an old, huge (by these people's standards) temple, which is no longer in use for religious purposes because a
murder was once committed there.
Gulliver is kept tied down to the ground as the tiny people build him a set of chains, and many thousands of the city's inhabitants
use the opportunity to come climb all over him.
Finally, Gulliver's chains are done, and he is freed of his ropes. He can finally stand up, for the first time since arriving in this land.
Gulliver's chains allow him to move immediately around the gate to his temple, so he can lie down inside the building or stand up
outside of it.
When Gulliver stands up the next morning, he sees a beautiful landscape laid out in front of him, like a garden. None of the trees are
taller than seven feet high, and all of the fields look like beds of flowers.
Gulliver's panicking a bit because it's now been about two days since he last peed. Finally, he decides to sneak back into his temple
and go in a corner.
Gulliver assures us that this is the only time he does something as unsanitary as peeing in his own house.
For the rest of his stay in this country, every morning two tiny people come with wheelbarrows for him to relieve himself in, and
then they take it away not a job we envy.
Anyway, after relieving himself in the corner of the temple, Gulliver heads outside again. The Emperor comes to visit him and orders
him to be given food and water.
Gulliver then describes the Emperor: he's a tiny bit taller than anyone else around him, with a strong, masculine face. He's around 28
and therefore "past his prime" (1.2.3), but he has been Emperor for seven years and has done a reasonably good job of it.
The Emperor wears simple clothing, but he also carries a gold, jewel-encrusted helmet and sword.
The Emperor and Gulliver try to speak to each other for a couple of hours, but even though Gulliver speaks a bit of German (what he
called "High Dutch"), Dutch (or "Low Dutch"), Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, they still can't talk to each other.
The Emperor and his Court clear out.
Gulliver has to deal with a huge crowd that has gathered around him in curiosity.
Six members of the crowd get rowdy and shoot at him with their arrows.
His guard catches the wrongdoers, ties them up, and gives them to Gulliver for punishment.
He puts five of them in his pocket and the sixth, he pretends that he is going to eat. But then he just takes out his pocketknife, cuts
the guy's ropes, sets him on the ground, and lets him go. Gulliver's mercy makes him really popular with the little folk.
Gulliver spends about two weeks sleeping on the floor of his temple while the Emperor orders a bed to be made for him.
As the news spreads that Gulliver has arrived in the capital city, lots of curious people pour into the city to see him.
The Emperor is concerned that all of this curiosity is going to lead people to neglect their homes and businesses. He orders that
anyone who has seen Gulliver once has to go home, and that no one is allowed to come within fifty yards of his house without a
license. This turns into a great money-making industry for the court.
Throughout this time, the Emperor is discussing what to do with Gulliver over the long term. A highly-ranked friend of Gulliver's who
is in on the discussion tells Gulliver that:
The Emperor is worried that Gulliver's eating habits will send the country into famine.
They think of starving him or shooting him in the face and neck with poisoned arrows to kill him off. But then they would have to
deal with his giant rotting corpse, which might bring a plague to the capital city.
Everyone is so impressed with Gulliver's treatment of the six people who shot him with arrows that the Imperial Commission sends
out an order to all the country's villages that they must send a certain amount of food and drink to the city for Gulliver every day.
The Emperor orders six hundred people to wait on Gulliver, 300 tailors to make him a suit, and 6 scholars to teach Gulliver their
language.
After three weeks, Gulliver's got a good grasp of their speech, so he chats with the Emperor. He asks him regularly for his own
freedom, but the Emperor always says: "Lumos Kelmin pesso desmar lon Emposo" "Swear a peace with him and his kingdom"
(1.2.6).
The Emperor requests Gulliver's permission to have him searched, and Gulliver agrees.
Gulliver helps the Emperor's guards into all of his pockets except one secret one, where he keeps some objects that, he says, should
only matter to him. Gulliver also won't let them look at his two fobs (read: small vest pockets usually used for holding a watch),
which contain a silver watch and a small amount of gold.
The two guards then give Gulliver a careful inventory of what they have found on him, which they give to the Emperor.
And we have reached the end of another super-long paragraph!
Gulliver transcribes the guards' inventory into English.
Apparently, they call him "the Great Man Mountain" (1.2.7).
They describe all of these relatively common objects (at least, common in the eighteenth century) a handkerchief, snuff (a kind of
powdered tobacco for sniffing), comb, razor, knife, journal, and pocket watch from the perspective of people utterly unfamiliar
with what they are looking at. For example, a comb is described as "a sort of engine, from the back of which were extended twenty
long poles" (1.2.7).
It also turns out that, even though Gulliver does not offer to put them in his watch pocket, they notice his watch chain coming out of
said pocket, so he has to show them the contents anyway.
After searching Gulliver's pockets, the two guards see that Gulliver is wearing a leather belt around his waist. Attached to this belt is
a large sword and a pouch for carrying gunpowder and shells.
The Emperor hears this inventory of Gulliver's possessions and then orders Gulliver to show his sword and pocket pistols.
The Emperor also signals three thousand of his troops to stay on hand during this display of Gulliver's weapons just in case.
So, when Gulliver takes his scimitar (a kind of curved sword) out of its scabbard (a sheath for a sword), all of the Emperor's troops
shout because they think Gulliver's about to assassinate their Emperor.
But he doesn't, of course: Gulliver puts the scimitar back in its scabbard and places it on the ground.
Gulliver also loads his pistols and shoots into the air to demonstrate how a gun works to the Emperor.
The tiny people are so shocked by the sound that hundreds of them fall to the ground; even the Emperor takes some time to collect
himself.
Gulliver then places his pistols and his firearms on the ground next to his sword.
Gulliver gives his watch, money, knife, razor, comb, snuffbox, handkerchief, and journal to the Emperor to examine but these
things, he gets back. The scimitar, pistols, and ammunition, on the other hand, get carted off to the Emperor's storehouses.
Inside the super-secret pocket that Gulliver does not reveal to the Emperor, he has: his glasses, a "pocket perspective" (1.2.11)
(probably a magnifying glass or telescope), and "several other little conveniences" (1.2.11) he won't describe. These are all delicate
objects that Gulliver is worried might get lost or broken if he shows them to anyone.
The Lilliputian court comes to like Gulliver thanks to his gentle behavior.
Because the Emperor admires Gulliver so much, the Emperor orders his people to put on a couple of shows for Gulliver
The main show is a kind of rope dancing, which is performed only by people who hold high office in Lilliput. In fact, in order to get a
high office in Lilliput, you have to beat all the other candidates in this rope dancing competition. Skill at this dance is the main
qualification for court positions.
Because the dance involves seeing who can jump the highest on a piece of rope without falling, there are lots of accidents. People
try to jump too high or miss the rope and whatnot and some of these falls are even fatal.
The Emperor also likes to make his court play a kind of limbo. Sometimes his courtiers creep under a stick he's holding and
sometimes they jump over. Whoever jumps and crawls the best wins a prize from the emperor: a colored belt, like a karate belt,
proving the winner's skills.
Gulliver invents a game to entertain the emperor: he sets up a raised stage using his handkerchief and a set of sticks.
On this stage, he sets a troop of 24 of the Emperor's horsemen to perform their maneuvers and drills.
This game goes on until one of the horses tears through the handkerchief with its hoof and injures itself; after that, Gulliver decides
the handkerchief is too weak to support the Lilliputians.
As Gulliver gets busy entertaining the Emperor's court, he hears news that something else has washed ashore: a giant black thing
that doesn't seem like a living creature.
It is, in fact, Gulliver's hat, which the Lilliputians drag to the capital. Gulliver is happy to get it back again.
The Emperor (whose sense of humor, we have to admit, seems kind of weak) decides that he wants Gulliver to pose standing with
his legs as far apart as they can go.
The Emperor orders his troops to march between Gulliver's legs in rows of 24 men.
Even though the Emperor also tells his armies not to make any comments about Gulliver's body, a bunch of them can't help looking
up and laughing.
Gulliver's pants are in such tatters at this point that he's flashing all of the Emperor's armies. There are, he tells us, "opportunities for
laughter and admiration" (1.3.7) for the Lilliputians after all, Gulliver implies, he's a giant, and his penis has to be proportionally
huge.
Gulliver lobbies hard to be set free, and finally the whole court agrees, with one exception: Skyresh Bolgolam, who seems to feel he
is Gulliver's enemy (Gulliver says, without reason).
Bolgolam at last agrees that Gulliver should be released, but only if Bolgolam can make the conditions for Gulliver's freedom.
The contract for Gulliver's freedom has the following rules:
Gulliver won't leave Lilliput without permission;
He won't come into the main city without the Emperor's permission and two hours of notice (because up until now, he's been
chained to that temple just outside the city gates);
The "man-mountain," as they continue to call him, will only walk on the kingdom's main roads, and will not lie down in any meadows
or fields;
He will be careful not to stomp on anyone or pick them up without their consent;
Once a month, if there are particularly urgent messages the Emperor wants to send, Gulliver will have to carry the messenger and
his horse to his destination and back again;
Gulliver will defend Lilliput against their enemy, the island of Blefuscu;
He will help workmen pick up stones to build walls and royal buildings;
In two months' time, Gulliver will give the Emperor his calculation of how big the island of Lilliput is;
If Gulliver observes all of these rules, the Emperor will provide Gulliver with food, drink, and "access to our royal person" (1.3.18)
in other words, Gulliver will get to spend as much time as he wants with the Emperor. Lucky guy!
Gulliver agrees to all of these rules, even though some of them seem to come from the pointless hatred of Skyresh Bolgolam.
The Emperor permits Gulliver to go free, and his chains are unlocked at last.
Gulliver
He was third of five sons of his father who was a poor man. He was born in Nottinghamshire . he was sent to emmanuel collage at
the age of 14.As you might expect, Lemuel Gulliver is the star and central character ofGulliver's Travels. Gulliver is the son of a
middle-class family in Nottinghamshire, England. He has studied medicine both in England and at the University of Leiden in Holland.
Gulliver has also served as an apprentice under a master surgeon, Mr. James Bates. Second, Gulliver's interest in languages and
customs is the primary engine for his Travels. He's good at adapting himself to other cultures.
King
the Lilliputian Emperor represents the King of England at the time of the publication of Gulliver's Travels, The Emperor of Lilliput also
loves war, and really wants to enslave the people of his neighboring island, Blefuscu. When Gulliver refuses to help him destroy
Blefuscu's freedom, the Emperor starts to hate Gulliver. Gulliver was totally impressed by the intelligence and kindness of the
emperor of Lilliput. he is little taller then his natives, handsome and has a great persona. He ordered his army to imprison Gulliver,
but after realizing that Gulliver can do no harm to him and his subjects he set him free under some rules and conditions which he
had follow. He shows his hospitality by ordering his subjects to stitch for Gulliver clothes and prepare his food. Gulliver has described
the emperor's persona in the novel in a very vivid manner.

Family baground: The novel begins with Lemuel Gulliver recounting the story of his life, beginning with his family history. He is born
to a family in Nottinghamshire, the third of five sons. Although he studies at Cambridge as a teenager, his family is too poor to keep
him there, so he is sent to London to be a surgeons apprentice. There, under a man named James Bates, he learns mathematics and
navigation with the hope of traveling. When his apprenticeship ends, he studies physics at Leyden.
Skyrish bolgolam: High Admiral of Lilliput and counselor to the Emperor, Skyresh Bolgolam is the enemy of Gulliver from the start.
He is afraid to loose his position as the counselor to the king. Gulliver's advancement would mean his loss of importance in King's
eyes. Thus he brings Gulliver a list of demands or conditions for Gulliver to stay in Lilliput, as it is favorable to his promotion in the
court, later he teams up with Flimnap to draw up articles of impeachment, which are leaked to Gulliver by an unnamed member of
the court.
How he reached Gulliver was working as an apprentice surgeon in the ship named "Antelope". On its first voyage it was caught in a
violent storm and sank and all the crew members were engulfed in the ocean. Gulliver somehow managed to swim to the seashore.
He was so tired that he soon was in a deep sleep. When he woke up he found himself tied to the ground by the little men
(Lilliputians) who lived there. Gulliver's ship, the Antelope gets involved in a violent storm in the East Indies. He and six crew
members row a boat to escape. They die and Gulliver swims to shore. When he wakes from sleep he finds himself tied with pieces of
thread. He feels something moving over his body. He is surprised to see little people climb his body. He is in the land of Lilliputs.
How was he taken: They built a wooden platform with wheels. They pulled the platform with Gulliver on it. The trolly, with Gulliver
on it, stopped outside the walls, alongside a very large building which had once been used as a temple, The door of this temple was
quite four feet [18] high and about two feet wide, and on each side, about six inches from the ground, was a small window. Inside
the building the King's blacksmiths fastened many chains,
Language In a special session, they decided to teach me their language, so that afterwards they could discuss with me what I
wanted of them or the profit which they could get from me. So, after several weeks of thorough learning when they taught me their
language and their ways,
Condition: 1) He would not depart from the Lilliputian dominions without their license.
2) He would help the Lilliputians if they were ever in a war
3) He would survey the surrounding land.
4) He would help with any building that needs to be done.
5) He would deliver messages.