GULLIVER'S TRAVELS: the
summary
It
purports to be a "true" travel account by the ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver with a maps of the places visited and full particulars about
Gulliver's family life. It includes realistic details to make the account as
true-to-life as possible, such as a letter by Gulliver to a cousin who had
persuaded him to publish his papers. This minute realism contrasts sharply with
the improbable situations Gulliver meets on his travels. The first voyage takes
him to a land inhabited by tiny man, the Lilliputians. The second voyage takes
Gulliver to a place inhabited by giants, Brobdingnag. The third voyage takes
Gulliver to various country, the most important of which is the isle of Laputa
where the inabitants are of normal size but distorted with one eye to the sky
and one eye looking inwardly and so unable to look at pratical daily life. In
the last book Gulliver reaches the country of the Houyhunhnms, a rational and organized
society ruled by horses, where human beings are represented by the bestial
Yahoos.
