Many of you might have grown up listening to the adventurous travels of Gulliver. Lemuel Gulliver is a surgeon and sea captain who visits remote regions of the world. He is the protagonist of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
The novel is in four parts, each describing one of Gulliver’s adventures. Gulliver visits Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of Houyhnhnms. While Lilliput is the land of tiny people who are not more than fifteen centimetres tall, Brobdingnag is the land of giants. Laputa is a flying island; with one eye pointing inward and the other outward, the people of Laputa are so lost in thought that they must be reminded to pay attention to the world around them.
In the fourth part, Gulliver visits the land of the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses who are cleaner, more rational, communal, and benevolent. After meeting these horses, he ends up with a feeling of disgust towards humans.
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